| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
I'm new to the Amiga world... not an owner but interested. I'm
interested in whether or not any work has been or is being done
to do an implementation of X windows on the Amiga. Would anyone
care to comment on the feasibility of such an effort. It would
seen the Amiga would be a better platform than most personal
computers due to its multi-tasking OS.
dan
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1360.1 | Maybe this year, maybe next | NAC::PLOUFF | Beautiful downtown Littleton | Thu Apr 21 1988 02:16 | 14 |
A report on Usenet has Dale Luck working on X Windows for the Amiga
as a commercial product. Luck is one of the original Amiga software
designers and still consults for Commodore. Commodore also announced
their own proprietary windowing package as part of the A2500 Unix
computer (an enhanced A2000) to be introduced shortly in Germany.
Just to confuse you a little bit, remember that the Amiga is already a
windowing machine, although its windows have no communications protocol
attached like X. Also, there is a public domain program called
something like "Unix Windows" which runs on both the Amiga and a Unix
host, and puts separate Unix tasks into separate Amiga text windows.
Don't know if anybody has ported the host code to VMS yet.
In short, no X yet, but there will be reasonably soon.
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