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From: jonnyg@ROVER.UMD.EDU (Jon Greenblatt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R3 on an IBM PS/2
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Date: 6 Mar 89 21:51:56 GMT
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	I just got my RISC card for my IBM model 80.  I am running it with a
8514 display with 1024x768 pixels and 256 colors out of a pallete of a
million.  The entire X server was compiled using HC2.1 on the straight mit
X11R3 release with patches 1-8 installed.  The dribbles I was experiencing
with the APA16 display are not there with the 8514 driver.  I have always
been impressed with the color port of X11 to the RT but now that I have one
myself I am completely impressed.  The color support is very fast and the
server is complete.  All the clients and demos work perfectly with HC2.1
except for a slight problem with xeyes which can be tricked into working
correctly.

	NOTE I am using the HC2.1 compiler from the DEC 22'nd release of AOS.
Earlier versions of HC2.1 do not work completely on the MIT core
distribution.

	AIX also supports color but I am very impressed with AOS 4.3 BSD.
With the RISC card you can run unix, have X Windows, and access your dos
file system from unix.  In case you are looking for code that makes the 8514
driver so fast you will end up looking at a object file distributed with the
MIT release that has no source.  IBM is not giving the fast code out but at
least they are making it publicaly available for use.


					JonnyG.