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From: maverick@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Steve Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEM on Unix Box?
Summary: maybe not so stupid
Message-ID: <3275@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 88 06:48:15 GMT
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Organization: Stanford University
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In article <168@cvbnet2.UUCP>, jdonsbac@cvbnet2.UUCP (Jeff Donsbach, Display & Devices, x4365, 5-2 2415) writes:
> From article <8808040927.AA18322@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, by ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET ("Julian F. Reschke"):
> >
> > Is it true, that GEM will be ported to the 68030 machine to run as
> > front end for UNIX. If true, will it be GEM/3? Will there be
> > multitasking extensions to GEM as a 'Multi-Desk'?
> 
> That would be a pretty stupid move. No one else in the UNIX world uses
> GEM for there machines. X11 would be the way to go. But, this is Atari
> we're talking about isn't it? :-)
> 
I don't think it's stupid at all.  It means you could run a large number
of ST programs.  That would be a big plus in my opinion!  Assuming you could
make it coexist with UNIX and still run without recompilation.

Also, regarding my request for blitter information posted earlier (from
a different site), I made a reference to the number an article had in
comp.arch on our system.  Obviously (now that I think about it) the number
may (and probably will) be different at your site.

	Thanks!

				--Steve