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From: BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga, UNIX, and X-WINDOWS
Message-ID: <13464@baldrick.udel.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 90 17:18:54 GMT
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   A friend of mine has a 28Mhz 68030-based Amiga using the Imtronics
accellerator, and is looking for some software to match his system.  
He is also considering purchasing the high-resolution video card if
and when it is ever produced, and would like some powerful workstation-
quality software to take advantage of the performance and graphics 
capabilities of his system.  Currently, there isn't much really 
powerful software available for the Amiga.

   Fortunately, there is X11 for the Amiga.  There is a lot of software
available on the FTP sites for X11R3, which is just the kind of 
software he is looking for.  A lot of this software is very powerful,
written for workstations with the graphics and processing capabilities
that his systems has.

   My question is this: will this software run with X11 alone, or will 
he also need to purchase Amiga UNIX in order to get most of this 
software compiled and running?