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- From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Subject: Re: Are we dead??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.160611.15626@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
- Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov12.143350.2043@csx.cciw.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:06:11 GMT
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- hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley) writes:
- :
- : Anybody have an idea for a programming project? I think porting is best done
- : alone, unless it's a really big job; the communication overhead would not be
- : worth it. For a start-from-scratch project, however, it would be beneficial.
- :
-
- Once the device driver kit comes out, I think porting the MGR window
- system would be an excellent idea. This will require graphics drivers
- that implement the standard bitblt operations for various boards , as
- well as mouse drivers.
-
- The actual port of the Bellcore window manager code is probably best
- done by a single person. But, if a device driver interface is
- defined, the graphics drivers could be written separately. Once the
- core package is ported the various client programs (there aren't too
- many) could also be ported separately.
-
- --
- Grant Edwards |Yow! I don't know why but,
- Rosemount Inc. |suddenly, I want to discuss
- |declining I.Q. LEVELS with a
- grante@aquarius.rosemount.com |blue ribbon SENATE
- |SUB-COMMITTEE!
-