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- From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
- Subject: MGR (was Re: Are we dead??)
- Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:43:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.174311.24616@csx.cciw.ca>
- Summary: MGR project
- Keywords: MGR
- References: <1992Nov12.143350.2043@csx.cciw.ca> <1992Nov18.160611.15626@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.160611.15626@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
- >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.
-
- This sounds like a great idea to me too. Where can the source code for MGR be
- found? I have found the sources for MGR under linux everywhere and for minix
- too, but I cannot find the general distribution. I will start looking at the
- linux MGR sources tonight. If someone knows of a better set of sources, please
- let me know.
-
- I guess we will all need to write drivers for our different video cards unless
- we want to stick with a set of standard modes. What do people think about the
- video modes we should use? I for one would like 640x480x16 standard VGA. This
- is the first one I will try to write.
-
- Once I have looked at the source (and you can too!) we should discuss how it
- might be parcelled out if others want to help. It looks big enough that a
- group effort would be beneficial (at least it should speed things up a little).
- Anyone else want to take a crack at MGR?
-
- A mouse driver for Microsoft Mouse is listed as one of the drivers already
- included in the device driver kit. Thus we shouldn't need to write that unless
- people have wierd mice. (Most mice are Microsoft Mouse compatible.)
-
- I have not looked at the source for MGR yet, but since it has been ported to
- Minix386, I assume it doesn't need any sockets or TCP/IP?
-
- Harry
-
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