Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!mimsy!aplcen!aplcomm!aplvax.jhuapl.edu!cfw From: cfw@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Chuck Waltrip) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: GEM on Unix Box? Message-ID: <1652@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> Date: 15 Aug 88 18:25:09 GMT References: <8808040927.AA18322@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> <168@cvbnet2.UUCP> Sender: news@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu Reply-To: cfw@aplvax.jhuapl.edu.UUCP (Chuck Waltrip) Organization: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Lines: 44 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"): >> And now for the latest rumour: >> >> 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'? >> >> Mr. Good, any comment? >> >> Julian F. Reschke > > > >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? :-) Actually, I thought that Mr. Reschke probably was referring to providing GEM on top of X11 which, I believe, would be a very nice thing to do for existing Atari developers who would have a reasonable shot at porting their software to the new machine. Mr. Reschke's suggestion about a 'Multi-Desk' is probably a good one also (would be nice for the ST series now) but is probably unnecessary since the various X window managers already provide this functionality. Even so, a real desk top window manager designed for use with GEM and other pure X window programs would be a very nice touch. Actually, it sounds like Atari is on the right track with the software they are planning for the 68030 box. I am more concerned with the hardware. Will they include memory parity? a large, high-resolution monitor? And, finally, of course, I am concerned with whether it will be available in the U. S. in a decent timeframe. The rumored personal VAX is supposed to be announced next month. Those of us who have purchase decisions to make will soon have some attractive choices in the $4k-$7k price range. Will Atari be there? >Jeff >========================== >Jeff Donsbach, Computervision Division, PRIME Computer, Inc. (CV' :-) ) >UUCP: {decvax | linus | sun}!cvbnet!jdonsbac >Internet: jdonsbac@cvbnet.prime.com ______________________________________________________________________________ Chuck Waltrip (expressing only his own views)