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Article #25667Re: X on IBM PC
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1988 12:48
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1988 12:48
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In article ... edward@ga.ecn.purdue.edu (Edward L Haletky) writes: > 1) Several software house have ported X to various PC's. > 2) X is a unixed based program. [ It runs on the PC under UNIX ] > 3) To port such a beast to a PC would require C compiler that can handle > all the Unix system calls. I do not know one that can. (possibly MSC.) That's one way of saying it. You also need an operating system to support all the UNIX calls (like fork()) or else you need to do more or less a complete rewrite to jam it into a device driver. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics Subject: Re: X on IBM PC Message-ID: <1583@sugar.UUCP> Date: 18 Mar 88 12:48:26 GMT References: <347@ga.ecn.purdue.edu> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 14