Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpdslab!hpiacla!jimg From: jimg@hpiacla.HP.COM (Jim Garrison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: X-Windows on the Amiga? Message-ID: <4830002@hpiacla.HP.COM> Date: 16 Dec 87 18:36:26 GMT References: <4830001@hpiacla.HP.COM> Organization: Hewlett Packard Lines: 23 >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 just think that the windowing/multitasking capabilities that the Amiga CURRENTLY has would make it easier to port X-Windows to than the other machines. You should be able to run an X server just like any other task under Intuition. My point is that I think there will be a lot of industrial/other applications that will use X-Windows for user interfaces and right now, you are looking at using expensive Un$x workstations as X servers. If you could replace those workstations with Amigas think of the cost savings. Now this could be a good opportunity for the Amiga to penetrate new business markets. I'm not saying that X-Windows is going to help anyone who has an Amiga at home! I can't see companies buying lots of $20K workstations (more if industrial ruggidized) to put on factory floors, but if they could put an Amiga there for $2-3K, it could be feasible. Jim G. ------------ "These are MY opinions, and have nothing to do with my employer."