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From: robin@SUN.COM (Robin Schaufler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS on a CG8-9
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Date: 20 Dec 89 03:34:01 GMT
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From NeWS-makers-request@cs.UMD.EDU Sat Dec 16 05:31:35 1989
To: NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu
Subject: Re: NeWS on a CG8-9
From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Bob Scheifler)
Sender: NeWS-makers-request@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins)

    Is it possible that the NeWS side of XNeWS could would run in
    24bits pretty
    much as-is, whereas the X side would require a little bit more
    work, or is
    it the case that the port would be as difficult for both sides (or
    is there
    effectively only one thing to port)?

> I don't really know how X11/NeWS is implemented internally.  I
thought both
> halves were built on top of a common graphic library, in which the X
side
> wouldn't take much additional work.

Yes, Bob is correct.  You get 2 ports for the effort of one.

However, since we didn't have any 24 bit hardware while xnews 1.0 was
being
developed, we don't know whether the X-specific server code is
correct.
						-- Robin