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From: broman@schroeder.nosc.mil (Vincent Broman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Graphics kernel for PC?
Message-ID: <BROMAN.90Feb5154422@schroeder.nosc.mil>
Date: 5 Feb 90 23:44:22 GMT
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In-reply-to: bunnell@henry.asel.udel.edu's message of 5 Feb 90 14:48:57 GMT

MGR has been ported from its Sun origins over to Xenix, with
device drivers for IBM devices.  Diffs are in the bugs.nosc.mil
archives.  The original MGR is on bellcore.com and sometimes
bugs.nosc.mil.  These two versions should be a good basis for
a Minix port, if someone puts together a mouse driver.

If the saying is true "MGR is to X as Unix is to Multics",
then a Minix windowed graphical user interface is almost
certainly going to be MGR-based.

Vincent Broman,  code 632, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152, USA
Phone: +1 619 553 1641    Internet: broman@nosc.mil   Uucp: sdcsvax!nosc!broman