Re: X Windows

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin) writes:

>In article <1993May26.042343.7434@fawlty.towers.oz.au> neville@fawlty.towers.oz.au (Neville Smith) writes:

>>BTW Has anyone mucked around with the idea of putting X Windows
>>on the GS? I know John MacLean did but his hard disk wasn't
>>big enough. Anyone else?

  ^^
  I'm sure his hard drive wasn't big enough for the X _source_, let alone
the executables and intermediate object files, even assuming ORCA/C
would compile them that far, and that he'd spent about a year removing
all UNIX-specific code from those roughly 80-100 MB of source code.

[..]
>Reason 2 is subjective and I neither support nor deny it.  However
>does anyone actually know an (approximate) quantitative amount
>for the space required for X (reason 1)?  Let's make the assumption
>that just one widget set (say Athena) is supported.  What I'm
>wondering is perhaps with the improved availability of low-cost
>hard drives, perhaps this is not too much of a limitation.

  Again, if someone is interested in this, instead of attempting
to port the actual X-Windows, why not simply find out what the 
protocols are and write an X -> IIGS-GUI interpreter?  Not only will
the end result actually fit on most IIGS hard drives, it will be as
fast as the IIGS gui is already, which is to say "Pretty Darn Quick".

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