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- From: andrey@cco.caltech.edu (Andre T. Yew)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Free X Windows
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 01:20:02 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- nhandel@NeoSoft.com (Nick Handel) writes:
-
- > I wish I had gotten in on the beginning of this thread because I'm
- > *extremely* interested in running my A2000 as an X terminal...
- > However, to add another data point to the thread, let me point out
- > that X is indeed free (depending on your definition of _free_), but
- > there is not a port of it to the Amiga to my knowledge. What I would
- > like to know is what exactly Gfx_base includes, and whether it is
- > merely an X spoofing app (like X vision for the PC) or a fully
- > realized library of Xlib to Amiga (is it called Intuition?) conversion
- > functions? Ultimately, I only want to use the A2000 as an X term, as I
-
- It's 1.5. You can buy the server and the necessary development
- stuff, but they're separate packages. The X server comes with some
- number of clients (including window managers) and the development
- package comes with stuff necessary to make porting X clients pretty
- easy (including a sockets thing). I've heard that porting most X
- clients is pretty easy. You need at least (I assume) the SAS C 5.10
- compiler. Ethernet is available from Commodore, and you can buy it
- through Gfxbase for some discount. See the FAQ for Gfxbase's address.
- The address appeared on an Amiga group not two days ago.
-
- Oh yeah, the X server is really nice and fast if you use it
- in mono. It multitasks, is system-friendly, and all that good
- stuff.
-
- --Andre
-
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- Andre Yew andrey@cco.caltech.edu (131.215.139.2)
-