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- From: rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey)
- Subject: Re: X11 on Amiga 3000 running amigaUnix
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- References: <74330@cup.portal.com> <C1H1pz.9EJ@gw.digibd.com> <1993Jan27.005359.23879@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:26:24 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.005359.23879@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jhp3x@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Jeffrey Howard Porter) writes:
- |> I know that several people have asked this question before - but this
- |> thread came up again in applications -
- |>
- |> Rumor (who listens to these anymore :-) has it that C= might release a
- |> new version of AUX that support 040 and possible better X resolution
- |> through AGA - now I have a 3000 (but hopefully I can get an AGA card
- |> for it whenever those come out) ---- and I want to know if ANYONE has
- |> heard ANYTHING... ??? Anyone??
- |>
- AGA still has the bitplane vs. chunky problem although at x4
- speed 16 color productivity might be bareable.
-
- X is best done via a chunky board. The UNIX kernel needs to be
- modified so drivers can be loaded on boot to handle different
- display adapters.
-
- |> Also - will stuff written for SVR4 (i.e. Word Perfect for UNIX) work
- |> on my A3000UX?? (Perhaps I should have included this in a separate
- |> post - I apologize - but hey - I just hate to waste screen space...
- |>
- Of COURSE! AmigaUNIX is SVR4.0 API wise. Word Pregnant will NEVER
- port to AmigaUNIX unless someone else eats the cost of the port
- and we know C= will never do that. B^(. Any modern application that
- Runs on Solaris 2.1 or Intel SVR4 CAN run on AmigaUNIX but probably
- won't due to the size of the AmigaUNIX market. B^(. Lotus, databases
- and a whole lot of other stuff would work too. I heard there was
- a completed Oracle port for AmigaUNIX but it was never let out. B^(.
- I heard they spent an outrageous amount of money on the port too,
- too bad they didn't spend it on Word Pregnant instead...
-
- -Rob
-