ISC update

[Piercarlo Grandi]

In article <PCG.89Dec28225254 at rupert.cs.aber.ac.uk> pcg at rupert.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

   In article <1989Dec25.040854.9409 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:

      You get X sources, yes.  But who is gonna port the server? The x source tape
      does not include a server for 386 machines/hardware, so it is not just a 
      case of dropping in the software and running.

      Don't recommend something to somebody else when you don't know the first
      thing about what you are talking about.  Telling somebody to get the
      X sources and do the port themselves will wast alot more than $800 dollars
      worth of thier time.

   Uh oh. The ISC X11 *libraries* (their so called developer's set)
   cost $795. The *server* costs $295.  From ISC just get the
   server, which is very well done (has a reputation for being the
   fastest around), and get the libraries and toolkits and clients
   off the X11 servers or tapes and compile them -- you are likely
   to get a more recent and more up-to-date version than ISC's.

How embarassing! :-> Ten minutes after posting this to comp.sys.ibm.pc
I read the following in comp.windows.x:

	From rws at EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU Thu Dec 28 23:10:22 1989
	From: rws at EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
	Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
	Subject: Re: x11r4 will I be able to build it for aix386/ps2 ...
	Date: 22 Dec 89 17:04:28 GMT
	Organization: The Internet

	The R4 server is supposed to build and run on the PS/2 under AIX for
	VGA and 8514 displays.

Another article also confirms that the new b&w and color PD
servers are much faster (I have read that *professional* tuning
has been done, with loads of profiling and hard thinking).

Which more or less makes it. Even if the only 386 Unix support on
the X11 R4 tape is for PS/2 under AIX, I am pretty sure sombody
will soon post mods to have it run under any stock 5.3.2 Unix. It
will not be difficult to do...  (and, please :->, using a stream
implementation or shared memory for local connections -- there
are those of us that do not have TCP/IP packages).
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