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From: rosenkra@hall.cray.com (Bill Rosenkranz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Book on MS C (really user interface portability)
Message-ID: <1555@hall.cray.com>
Date: 7 Apr 89 17:02:13 GMT
References: <754@oravax.UUCP> <225800147@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <452@pai.UUCP>
Reply-To: rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc., Mendota Heights, MN
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In article <452@pai.UUCP> erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) writes:
= [stuff about X portability]
=You can run X on an IBM PC.  You can run X programs (but apparently not
=an X server) on a Cray supercomputer.  Right now, X is just about your
=only hope for providing a consistent look and feel on a graphical interface

there is no reason (i know of, anyway) that the X server itself could not
be ported to a Cray. for example, the X-MP HSX channel is capable of very 
high speed i/o to special customer hardware, including frame buffers. i know
of several custom applications of this nature, though none specifically with
X. add a keyboard and pointing device and away we go!

-bill
rosenkra%boston@hall.cray.com