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From: hkbirke@mit-amt (Hal Birkeland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 on RT with AIX?
Message-ID: <3057@mit-amt>
Date: 21 Sep 88 01:04:38 GMT
References: <148@sunquest.UUCP> <478@pan.UUCP>
Reply-To: hkbirke@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Hal Birkeland)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <478@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
>In article <148@sunquest.UUCP> whm@sunquest.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) writes:
>>Does anybody know if X11R2 will work on an IBM RT running AIX 2.2?  (Anybody
>>tried it?)
>
>The servers for the RT on the MIT distribution tape are supposed to be
>for 4.3 (although I've seen reports that there are problems with them).
>They definitely don't work with AIX.  The IBM group that works on 4.3
>for the RT was at Xhibition, and I talked to a guy there for a while.
>He said that it wouldn't be too hard to convert those servers to AIX,
>since the displays are the same. ...
>The announced release date for AIX X release 2.1 is this month ...
>
>jw

X11R2 -- I was unable to get it to run under ACIS 4.3. The server would
         seg fault when trying to stipple the background of my MegaPel.
         Hopefully, the new ACIS due out at the end of the month will
         fix this.

X and AIX --
	 The IBM demos held at MIT for two recent weeks of X were on an
	 APC RT running AIX 2.2.0. Unfortunately, it was X10R4 (severly
	 tweaked for performance) and not X11. As it was, the demo was
         very impressive as the server was fast (nearly as fast as my
	 uVax II/GPX and faster than our uVax II/Parallax).  As jw said,
         X11 is due out for both AIX and ACIS in the immediate future...
         Happy windowing...

-- hal