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- From: jaker@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jake Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX and X-Window questions.
- Message-ID: <C1KrA0.2uM@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:29:59 GMT
- References: <bchiu.728167639@crash.cts.com>
- Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA
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- bchiu@crash.cts.com (Bill Chiu) writes:
-
- >Hello World,
-
- Hello, Bill. :)
-
- > I have an Amiga 3000/25. I'm now taking an Neural Network class that
- >requires me to work on X-Window with an Sun workstation. Couldn't Amiga do
- >that?
-
- Yes.
-
- > My questions is, can Amiga's UNIX and X-Window work with Amiga's ECS
- >graphic chipset's limited colors? If not, what's the cheapest graphic
- >board that'll work with this setup.
-
- The latest version (ie the final version, since CBM seems to have lost
- interest in its UNIX development) is 2.1, and this will indeed provide
- color with the ECS chips alone.
-
- > I don't even have Amiga' UNIX yet. But if I get it will I need to get
- >source code for every program and recompile it on my computer? About how
- >much harddisk space would serve for a 'okey setup?
-
- If you want to develop under X, you'll probably want *at least* 200MB
- devoted to UNIX. You could trim this down, but you'd need another system
- with such storage to do it on, then spew it back to tape for installation
- on your own machine.
-
- > Lastly, what's the current version of Amiga's UNIX operating system.
- >Will I need to purchase and install X-Windows seperately. Approximately
-
- Commodore-Amiga UNIX SVR4 Version 2.1, and X11R4 is included. If you want
- Motif or X11R5, that's your own problem.
-
- >how much disk space will this installation need?
-
- You *can* pull it off in 100MB, but as they say, "It ain't pretty" - you'd
- need to rip out just about everything *but* X to develop under it...
-
- >Thanks.
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- Jake Rose :: "Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!"
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