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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: X11 for Amiga, Announcement Warning
Message-ID: <734@boing.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 89 17:31:39 GMT
References: <722@boing.UUCP> <491@pai.UUCP> <727@boing.UUCP> <1048@quintus.UUCP>
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In article <1048@quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>
>1.  What visuals do you support?  (On a standard Amgia display?  on a viking?)

We support two styles of visuals.
	All are single bitplane "monochrome"
	1. The a2024/Viking 1 monitor  1008x800(usa) 1008x1024(europe)
	2. Standard amiga screen. variable width and height.
	   Interlace can be turned on to get more rows on the display.
	   Normal resolution used is 704x484 interlaced and jam the display
	   up and to the left to get the most pixels on screen.

>
>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?)

Not yet, we plan on it in the future.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 dale     software    72012 Apr 27 12:12 plaid*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 dale     software   154848 Apr 27 12:30 uwm*

>3.  Any plans for R3?  R4?  Motif?

Yup, stay tuned.

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

If you have memory to burn you can run 2 copies of the server each
with it's own screen. The typical syntax is
Xamiga<cr>  "starts Xserver display 0"
Xamiga :1<cr> "should start it for display 1"
You will then have two screens up. You can direct the clients to come
up in any of those screens by specifying.
xcalc -display unix:0   or
xcalc -display unix:1
the <unix> was the interim syntax for "local connection"

>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?

This is what I am planning. Kind of waiting for a low cost a500
ethernet board. Could also use V1.4/ecs and a cheap 31kz b/w monitor.

>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 have some of my own benchmarks that I do not like to strut around. I
would not mind current users of X on their Amiga though running some of
their own tests and sending me some information about were it is lacking.

> I wish you the best of Luck with this.

Thanks, I'm going to need it.

>-Peter Schachte
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Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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