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- From: wmagro@uiuc.edu (William Magro)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: X windows server on ST
- Message-ID: <BxMJuv.n4n@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 22:30:26 GMT
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- There has been a lot of talk about making an X windows server for the ST.
- I have zero GEM programming experience, but I do have the gcc cross
- compiler on my SPARC at work. I downloaded the server part of the MIT
- X11R5 distribution, just to see how a server is put together. I figured
- the atari server wouldn't be that much different from a MacII server (at
- least for monochrome displays).
-
- Conveniently, the mit distribution separates device independent code from
- device dependent code. The MacII screen code was done by apple, and they
- based their code on the sun code. Before I even start trying to compile
- the device independent code (and then making a screen driver for the ST),
- I need to know about which unix calls have counterparts in MiNT/MultiTOS.
- Where is there a comprehensive list? (I suppose I could look at the mint.h
- header file.)
-
- Finally, is someone else (presumably smarter than me) already attempting
- this port? If so, I will sit and wait. Otherwise, has someone already
- attempted it and failed, and is there an obvious reason why I, too, will
- fail? Help me out. I think we'd all like to see a server.
-
- --Bill
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