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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: X-Windows on the Amiga?
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Date: 13 Dec 87 09:27:21 GMT
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In article <4830001@hpiacla.HP.COM> jimg@hpiacla.HP.COM (Jim Garrison) writes:
>
>                      X-Windows on the Amiga?
>
>At the December Faug meeting, I heard some rumors of X-Windows support
>showing up in V1.4.  There was also some talk about some network support
>like Decnet.  This sounds really exciting to me.

As they say in Modula-2 GetReal(); DECnet? TCP/IP over ethernet, great
but some propietary network from a 2 bit computer company? :-) :-) :-)
A window server would be nice, although don't expect to run any Intuition
programs on it. With the Ameristar e-net board and NeWS (or X or both) the
Amiga would make a damn nice terminal to your basic network. 

>I know that there are some X-Windows products for some OTHER PC's but I
>think the Amiga with it's multitasking OS and rich windowing environment
>could blow them out of the water!

Just out of curiousity, how can you say in one breath, look how neat it
would be to put the same window system everyone else has onto the Amiga.
And then say it's "rich windowing environment" (which you have blown away)
would blow them out of the water.? 

>I love the Amiga!

So do I, but I'll stick to worrying about 1.21 before I get into 1.4 :-) :-)


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