Re: X Windows

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

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?
>
   The toolbox for the IIGS takes up about 700K or so of total memory when
everything in Rom and Ram is counted. That's a lot of source code (probably
about 3500K or more given the ratios I get between my 65816 source and
object code); X11R5 is much bigger, taking up 27 MEGS compiled, as a du on
my University's X11R5 partition just told me. If you can find someone with
a spare 200 Megs or so to hold the various source stuff, individuals will
need somewhere near 20-40 Megs free just to run a partially stripped-down
version of X. Granted, the 27 Megs includes a bit of fonts and libraries,
but for anyone who wants to be able to compile things for the IIGS's X,
those are necessary.

   If anyone wants to come out with a decent version of X that looks good
despite the IIGS's resolution problem (most X terminals are 1024*768; the
IIGS is 640*200 in a screen that has roughly half the surface area), and
runs at a decent speed, I'd certainly buy it.

Nathan



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