Re: X Windows

[philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)]

Neville Smith writes:

>BTW Has anyone mucked around with the idea of putting X Windows
>on the GS?

  It would almost certainly run too slow.  I have yet to see a decent
implementation of X on a PC, so a stock GS would undoubtable be worse.
Someone would need to spend a lot of time tweeking the device dependent
code before it would be halfway decent.  Then there's the problem of memory
management--X was written under the assumption that it would be run under
a virtual memory scheme, so there are NO checks for running out of memory.
In other words, it would crash at the drop of a hat without some major
modifications to the original source code!  This is something we had to do
here at Labtam for our X terminals.

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