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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Latest info about 386bsd?
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 22:39:48 GMT
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In article <239dr8$7kv@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>In article <hastyCAxtF3.FGA@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>>>>> 3. What's the X server like for 386bsd? I have an Actix GE 32 plus, which
>>>>>	I believe should work well?
>>>>
>>>>Should work fine, Nate has one of these, and it hauls butt.
>>>
>>

>>Unless Nate has switch recently he is running XS3.
>
>Nope, I've been waiting for a source release of XS3, so I switched to
>a BETA Xfree86 server.  I *really* like having source code lying around. :-)
>

Very, very strange, for I released the patches for XS3 support for 
S3 911/801 chipsets more than six months ago and they have been available at
 sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov and many individuals including 386bsd, linux and
OSF have managed to build XS3.


But, if you like XFree86 that is a different story...

Amancio
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