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From: joel@dtscp1.UUCP (Joel Rives)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.windows.x,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
Message-ID: <766@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 14:43:30 GMT
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Reply-To: joel@dtscp1.UUCP (Joel Rives)
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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In article <566@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Joel Avery) writes:
>
>I hope that X11 does not represent the future of the Amiga windowing
>environment ... please Mr. Luck, tell me it is not so.  3 meg of
>memory needed !?  7 meg of mass storage!?  One of the things I brag
>to people here at work about is that while they run Un*x and   
>X-windows in a 8meg/40meg environment, they often run out of memory
>when multitasking.  At home on my Amiga with 512k and 2 floppies,
>I can do much better, plus my windows are much faster.  When I had
>1.5 meg of memory, I could just scream with all kinds of stuff running.
>If the Amiga were to use X11, sure it would be 'standard', but oh
>what a hog it would be.  I, for one, would be sure to drop her.
>Please, oh please tell me this cannot be so.

While your arguments are sound, they hold true only within the narrow scope 
of your personal environment. There are several reasons why someone or some
organization might wish to run the X Windowing System on an Amiga. One such
instance that pops to mind is a cluster of Amiga workstations, which are
intermixed with workstations of another brand -- say Sun or DEC. An 
organization might wish to maintain uniformity and portability across their
entire environment -- no matter what type of workstations they currently own
or might buy in the future. Universities fall under this category in a BIG
way. Certain development environments (such as the one i work in) are also
prime candidates for inexpensive workstations that run X.

Joel Rives