10 Aug
2012
10 Aug
'12
8:25 p.m.
In article <001e01cd7753$c746f6c0$55d4e440$(a)YAHOO.COM>OM>,
"Andrew Lynch" <LYNCHAJ at yahoo.com> writes:
The plan is to run Linux or NetBSD on the S-100 80386
CPU board which would
also be running the X window server. [...]
OK, linux or bsd should be easy to get the server running. The book I
mentioned explains how to start with getting things running by
handling the necessary parts of every server (input devices,
initialization, etc.) and start with simple getpixel/putpixel support.
From there you can layer everything else on top of
that. All
additional work after that is simply "tuning" to make things
go
faster.
It will help if you have significant amounts of off-screen pixmap
memory from which you can blt to the screen. In particular, xterm
will be very slow without this.
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