Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X Server for Dec 3100 Message-ID: <535@auto-trol.UUCP> Date: 20 Dec 89 15:25:36 GMT References: <1130@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> Reply-To: ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru (Martin Brunecky) Distribution: usa Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver Lines: 36 In article <1130@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> miket@midas.WR.TEK.COM (Michael Tranlong) writes: >Hello Dec Xperts, > >I am trying to run X clients on SUNs with the X server on a Dec 3100. .... Please, do not confuse DECstation 3100 (ULTRIX/Rics) and VAXstation 3100 (VMS/VAX). Anyway, both of them can work. The DECstation 3100 X server works great for clients running of Sun/SPARC It's fast. The only glitches under UWS 2.1 are that the server reports save_under and backing_store as true - but it does not do it. Plus I have seen some glitches with XCopyPlane, my widgets use it do display Bitmap icons in foreground color, but sometimes it displays my bitmap twice, side by side. DEC just announced UWS 2.2, I hope it to be even better... The VAXstation 3100 X server from VMS up to 5.2 ONLY supports LOCAL and DECNET transport. Plus it has some byte swapping problems with protocol requests comming from SPARC and similiar machines. However, the next VMS release is expected to include DECwindows 2.0, which (among other things) includes multiple transport support. It should come with TCP/IP transport based on DEC UCX (Ultrix Connection) product, and documentation/examples on how to write a transport layer for anything you want. I can not say more, but I'v seen client running on SPARCstation display on VS3100. Besides using the DEC UCX product (I'v got no ideas about it's pricing, but quite few ideas about it's reliability and ease of use), you COULD take the other way. That means getting DECnet for Sun. But you would have to modify Xlib == use MIT Xlib sources etc. May end up more work than worth it. -- ############################################################################### Martin Brunecky, Auto-trol Technology Corporation, 12500 North Washington Street, Denver, CO-80241-2404 (303) 252-2499 ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru