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Date: Sun 03-Nov-1989 19:59:55 From: Unknown Subject: X Windows port Any news/updated dates for the X server port to the NeXT? -- chris -- Chris Walters, MITRE McLean "As a student, I hated algorithms so much that rather than try to understand them, I quit college in the early 1960s and joined the >From: lacsap@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Date: Sun 04-Nov-1989 18:19:13 From: Unknown Subject: Re: X Windows port The X11R3 server that was working 80% under .9 has been moved to 1.0. It is still 80% complete in that it is still too buggy to release. It is questionable whether this release will make it out of MIT given that X11R4 is about to be released, and it may be better to put all the effort into porting to that release. Some of you may ask why it is taking so long. Well it is simple, there is only one person working on the port currently at MIT, and that person is a student with academics to worry about first. No I am not working on the port, though I am one of the guinea pigs. MIT's policy right now is that they will not release the port until they consider it usable. If I hear anything new on the subject I will post it here. pasc
Date: Sun 05-Nov-1989 06:58:36 From: Unknown Subject: Re: X Windows port In article <943@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> lacsap@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes: >The X11R3 server that was working 80% under .9 has been moved to 1.0. It is >still 80% complete in that it is still too buggy to release. It is >questionable whether this release will make it out of MIT given that X11R4 >is about to be released, and it may be better to put all the effort into >porting to that release. Some of you may ask why it is taking so long. >Well it is simple, there is only one person working on the port currently >at MIT, and that person is a student with academics to worry about first. There is only one person working on the port? Every time he attends a class, five thousand NeXT owners who really want X Windows to work on the NeXT have to wait an additional hour, which amounts to 625 business days lost. Though I am not personally eager to see this product ported, I realize it is strategically important for the positioning of the cube as an academic and scientific workstation. NeXT would do well to finance this operation and hire a few of MIT programmers who can, together, afford the time to make a good product that comes out soon. >Pascal Chesnais, Research Scientist, Electronic Publishing Group >Media Laboratory, E15-348, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311 >NeXTmail: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu Jonathan Dubman UC Berkeley >From: lacsap@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Date: Sun 05-Nov-1989 18:08:42 From: Unknown Subject: Re: X Windows port In article <1989Nov5.065836.5133@agate.berkeley.edu> dubman@typhoon.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan Dubman) writes: >In article <943@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> lacsap@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) writes: >>at MIT, and that person is a student with academics to worry about first. > >There is only one person working on the port? Every time he attends a class, >five thousand NeXT owners who really want X Windows to work on the NeXT have >to wait an additional hour, which amounts to 625 business days lost. >Jonathan Dubman At least his priorities are straight, one hour of class means more than 625 business days of good will lost. Originally there were three people working on the port. MIT (read Project Athena) has a different set of priorities about how things get done. The top priority right now I believe is getting release 4 of X11 into shape, which actually may expedite the release any working X11 port to the NeXT world. NeXT does seem to be comitted to seeing an X11 port happen. They have been cooperative in the endeavor. However they are not in a position to dictate a schedule for a port. Note that I do not work for NeXT or Project Athena, however my comments are based on discussions with the people involved with seeing the port happen, and having seen the current state of the port. pasc
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