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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
Message-ID: <795@boing.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 00:46:50 GMT
References: <788@boing.UUCP> <566@bnr-fos.UUCP> <1148@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <1148@jimi.cs.unlv.edu> ray@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Ray Tripamer) writes:
>In article <566@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Joel Avery) writes:
>
>Clearly, X Window for the Amiga is not for everyone.  Ususally, X Window
>is run on a computer attached to a local area network.

This is only ONE of it's benefits.

> This will not be
>the case for a lot of Amiga users.  I don't think it is the intention of
>Mr. Luck to have X on the Amiga replace the Workbench, but rather to supply
>an well-known, useful product for those people who use Amigas on a network.

The X Window System is also a standard execution and programming
environment. I can't count how many programs are currently being written
nor how many programmers or quantity of R&D being spent on developing
X programs. With X11 on the Amiga these programs will be much easier
to port to the Amiga since the majority of the work is graphics and we
will have the exact same libraries and toolkits available on the Amiga
that Sun/VAX/etc. programmers will be using.

Hopefully the programmers will isolate the os dependant routines such
as fileio, task control from the standard graphics stuff and make
supporting other native platforms much easier.

Believe me, if I only hoped to sell X11 to people with ethernet boards
I should be charging $4000/copy to make up for the investment I've
put in it already.  ;-)

-- 
Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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