Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU!bh01 From: bh01@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU (Russell Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: design goals Message-ID: <8707210144.AA13974@clutx.clarkson.edu> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 21:44:57 EDT Article-I.D.: clutx.8707210144.AA13974 Posted: Mon Jul 20 21:44:57 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 03:09:07 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 10 Is one of the design goals of V11 to run on a machine with 16 bit integers? I sure hope so, because X would be perfect here at Clarkson where our School of Engineering is putting 75 286 boxes on a network with a wide variety of machines talking TCP/IP. And this is just a start. Microsoft is only promising that they're thinking about starting to write network transparent graphics. X is here, but not if it won't run on our machines. As I see it, if X can't be ported to a 16 bitter, we either go without X, or wait until the 286-pin compatible 386 comes out. -russ