Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:8497 comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt:361
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!hsi!stpstn!aad
From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: IBM and X windows
Message-ID: <2869@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 01:21:00 GMT
References: <8903012124.AA12575@expo.lcs.mit.edu> <4332@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: aad@stepstone.com
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
Lines: 29

In article <4332@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) writes:
>In article <8903012124.AA12575@expo.lcs.mit.edu>, DAN@YKTVMV writes:
>>It is clear that AIX does and will continue to support X. In fact
>>the current implementation is quite good and uptodate, i.e. R3. 

"good" is quite subjective, but it certainly isn't "complete".  I have problems
with aixterm, which I've docmented before.  I also have problems getting things
to work when run from other machines.  For example, when I do a "bitmap
/tmp/foo" from a Sun to the display (a megapel) on an RT with IBM's 11.3, I get
'bitmap:  unable to open font "variable"'.  I haven't checked yet to see whose
fault this is, but I would think think that a decent implementation of MIT's
distribution would work, regardless.  Running "puzzle -picture mandrill.cm"
produces some quite odd effects.  Things like xdm and the man pages are just
plain missing.  If/when I can get 2.2.1 and nfs, I'll try to build these things
out of MIT sources.

>And what about AOS (aka BSD)?  Will IBM be shipping R3 for it's unix
>users?  Currently all we can get out of IBM is R2, and are _not_
>happy.  Half a year has been enought time to do the upgrade, assuming
>IBM is still planning on supporting AOS.

According to the MIT 11.3 distribution, you should be able to build and run
the MIT distribution under ACIS/AOS.  I know that people at the ITC (CMU) are
running X11 of some sort under it.
-- 
@disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my
	    employer, my GIGI, my VT05, or my 11/34)
beak is@>beak is not
Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad