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cdewick@jedi.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:

First, I would like to say that I am also dismayed by Sun's recent
dropping of support for the GT framebuffer w/out at least offering some
kind of favorable tradein. 

>In <4oli35$sji@news1.ucsd.edu> David Foster <foster@bial1.ucsd.edu> writes:

>Apart from intrinsic dropping of support in SunOS and/or Solaris, the
>other major difficulty here is that "real" X-Windows, ie. X11R6 built from
>source instead of Open Windows which not "real" X, does not support any of
>Sun's frame buffers past the cg6 in any level of decency. 

>I queried folks at the X consortium about this once, and they said that
>because they didn't have any Sun machines with 24-bit frame buffers, they
>couldn't work on the 24-bit Xserver code. So at least they had a valid
>point, which leads to the next question of why didn't Sun lend them a
>couple of machines with various 24-bit frame buffers in them? It's not as
>though it would have hurt Sun's multi-billion dollar revenue base... 

>But it would have made X much more useful.

In what way? Sun supplies an X11R5 server, which you are free to run
X11R6 apps with if you want. Are any major workstation vendors helping
the X consortium develop Xserver code? I don't think you can run an X
consortium server on an SGI either, for example. Why would you want
to?

-dave