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From: bri@athena.mit.edu (brian d. carlstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: NetBSD...Now for the 68k
Date: 24 Apr 1993 21:30:50 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In-reply-to: jmward@elbert.uccs.edu's message of 23 Apr 1993 20:23:43 GMT

In article <1r9j8fINNoai@harpo.uccs.edu> jmward@elbert.uccs.edu (Joel M. Ward) writes:

	   seems like the graphic system shouldn't matter too much for just
   straight UNIX.  wouldn't that be a problem for X support?
	   or maybe not, i don't know too much about macs or internal X stuff...

i was addressing the graphics system of the apollo and is important
because there is no character mode. you have to start off drawing the
characters in graphics mode right away. i think there mught be hope of
using the X11R5 apollo distibution since it is based on the apollo BSD
enviroment, but i can say for sure.

i have received a lot of encourageing mail from people that have
successfully made book blocks and graphics code for the apollo, and am
currently get a list setup (sorry for the delay) and will post the
information i recevied so far to this.

-bri

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Brian D. Carlstrom	bri@mit.edu
Programmer and System Administrator
M.I.T. Flight Transportation Laboratry