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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: X11 for Amiga, Announcement Warning
Message-ID: <1048@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 22:54:03 GMT
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Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
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A few followup questions.

1.  What visuals do you support?  (On a standard Amgia display?  on a viking?)

2.  Do your sample clients use a shared library?  If not, do you plan to
    do this in the future?  How big are the executables?  (E.g., how big
    is plaid?  uwm?)

3.  Any plans for R3?  R4?  Motif?

4.  Is there a mechanism for creating more than 1 X screen at a time
    (on the same display)?

5.  If one wanted to buy an Amiga as a low cost X terminal, how much
    would it cost, all told?  (I'm not sure what an A500 + 512K goes
    for.)  Have you thought of selling such a thing as a package?

Between the Amiga's fast context switching, shared memory IPC, graphics
hardware, and local clients, this should really kick a**.  I'd like to
see it benchmarked against some of the X terminals floating around.  I
wish you the best of Luck with this.
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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