Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:8500 comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt:364 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: IBM and X windows Message-ID: <4336@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 5 Mar 89 08:01:53 GMT References: <8903012124.AA12575@expo.lcs.mit.edu> <4332@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <2869@stpstn.UUCP> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Reply-To: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: Pennsylvania State University, Computer Science Lines: 24 In-reply-to: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) I write: >>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. In article <2869@stpstn.UUCP>, aad@stpstn (Anthony A. Datri) writes: >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. Sorry, I should have been clearer about this. Someone here did try to build the MIT R3 distribution of under AOS. The resulting server was buggy enough that we had to revert to R2. Since IBM will not release the source for their 8514 driver (which is mostly what we have around here) we can't fix it ourselves. Anyway, as I said before, if IBM is really supporting AOS and X11 as products, why didn't THEY fix it, and ship the fixes to their many anxious customers?? (At one point we were told that they were not planning to release R3, or to ship new drivers. Later we were told other things. Who knows what is really going to happen?) -- Scott Schwartz