Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp!ceres!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!bmacintyre From: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX: any info? Keywords: AMIX Message-ID: <21730@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 8 Mar 90 13:24:24 GMT References: <296@amix.commodore.com> <1990Mar6.193622.13377@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 38 es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > >TO SOMEONE AT COMMODORE WORKING ON UNIX: >--------------------------------------- I don't qualify, but what the hell ... >2) Are you implying that X comes with the Unix? How can X not come with Unix? Ok, there is a bit of work to port X to a specific version of Unix and a lot more work (I imagine) to make it use the Amiga graphics hardware. But X is PD. Remember, we aren't talking about Dale's AmigaX here, we are talking about a Unix X. >3) Currently, X is only B&W. Will it be available in color by the time >that the Unix machine is released? See above. X for the Amiga (ie. AmigaOS) is only B&W. Unix X is colour. >4) The U. of Lowell board, connected to some huge monitor, seems like >what would make an Amiga into a full "Sun" workstation, i.e. big and >colorful. Is it Commodore's intention to make the Unix Amiga work with >UofL and if so is the U. of L. expected out soon, i.e. with the Unix >machine. Actually, this is an interresting thought. The big reason for not make the UofL board standard is that it doesn't fit the AmigaOS well, as I understand it. But it wouldn't be any more difficult to make an X server that ran on the UofL board than on the Amiga screen. And since X allows multiple displays per server, it would be possible to set up the UofL board as :1 and the normal display as :0 ... Of course, how you differentiate between the two at the input side of things isn't as easy, but hey, it's something to think about. -- -- Blair MacIntyre, Professional Leech on Society ( aka CS Graduate Student ) -- bmacintyre@{watcgl, watdragon, violet}.{waterloo.edu, UWaterloo.ca} -- Date, verb: prearranged socializing with intent.