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From: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS For VaxStations (Micro Vaxes, etc)
Message-ID: <23810@pprg.unm.edu>
Date: 16 May 89 16:14:11 GMT
References: <8905132111.AA19260@fnord.umiacs.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <8905132111.AA19260@fnord.umiacs.UMD.EDU> steve@umiacs.UMD.EDU writes:
>
>   There's some port of NeWS to the VAXstation QVSS display, for some really
>old version of Ultrix, if I remember correctly.  It comes with the NeWS 1.1
>sources, as part of the reference ports.  There's not necessarily any
>support for more recent Ultrix (or true-blue BSD), and no support for more
>interesting displays (i.e., the display on the DECstation 3100).  Get the
>sources from Sun; they cost $1000 to universities.  Better yet, wait for
>the X11/NeWS release, and then get the sources to *that*, if Sun makes
>them available.

Yes, the sources you get from Sun are for Ultrix 2.2 (2.something).  Working
with Los Alamos National Laboratory (Group MEE-10), I was able to get NeWS
running on a VS2000 (QVSS display only).  I also started to play with
a DS3100 port, but real work got in the way.  Before I dropped it, though,
I was able to get NeWS to compile but not run.  I was getting a seg fault
BEFORE it even got the the good stuff (the graphics).  

From experience we (UNM) have with the DS3100, I think my problem is 
as a result of the DS3100 (MIPS) compiler rather than the NeWS source, 
though I did not REALLY have time to track the problem down to see if
Sun had done something that was not kosher.

>   If someone does a DECstation port, I'd love to hear about it.  There's
>a few people here (including myself) who have thought about doing a DS3100
>port, but thinking's about all that anyone here has done...

I WISH that someone would commercially make NeWS available for Dec machines,
and cheap.  I feel NeWS has A LOT to offer, but with "free" X, things are
not looking very good.
>
>	-Steve
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W. Tait Cyrus   (505) 277-0806		e-mail: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu
University of New Mexico			
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Parallel Processing Research Group
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131