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From: mike%aleytys@UUNET.UU.NET (Michael Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R4, SYSV/386 Rel3.2, & Me
Message-ID: <9001062219.AA06549@aleytys.UU.NET>
Date: 7 Jan 90 03:19:36 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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I'm currently running X11R2, which is the latest my vendor supports, under
SYSV Rel3.2., on a 16MHz 386 with 387, using a serial mouse and the Bell Tech.
Workstation Graphics Engine (alias 'Blit Express') monochrome display board.
The system is not attached to a network.

All mention of execution speed aside, I would like to run X11R4.  I need to
know if the MIT distribution has support for SYSV Rel3.2, and AT 386-clone
display and mouse hardware.  I am fully willing to switch to a different
display board (even one with lower resolution).

Frankly, I'm tired of being left one (now two) releases back by my vendor, with
no bug fixes, and a server that is so un-optimised as to creep along.  I'm 
trying to develop X applications; to do that effectively, I need to be able to
keep up with the latest developments in X.

Secondly, as I have only 100 Meg. of disk space I can allocate to building R4,
and the full uncompressed source is 150 Meg, I'd like to know if I could do the
build in stages, starting with the server and core, archiving and deleting the
source of each stage as I complete it.

Thanks for your patience.
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