Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!robohack!hybrid!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX: any info?
Keywords: AMIX
Message-ID: <5698@becker.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 90 16:28:21 GMT
References: <MWM.90Feb27110345@raven.pa.dec.com> <296@amix.commodore.com> <1990Mar6.193622.13377@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <21730@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <21730@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes:
|[...]
|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 <amigaid>:1 and the normal display as <amigaid>: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.

	I have seen Amix running X on a UofLowell
	board in color - it looks pretty good.

	It was demoed in November at the World of
	Commodere in Toronto...

Cheers,
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