Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP From: jg@mit-eddie.UUCP (Jim Gettys) Newsgroups: net.graphics,net.unix-wizards Subject: New X Window System distribution. Message-ID: <699@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 09:11:41 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.699 Posted: Wed Dec 11 09:11:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 12-Dec-85 05:28:59 EST Distribution: net.graphics,net.unix-wizards Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 42 Release 2 of the X window system, protocol version 10 is now available from MIT for the DEC VS100, VS1 and VS2 workstations (Microvax II with QVSS) under Berkeley Unix (4.2, 4.3) and Ultrix (1.1 and 1.2). The device independent X and Vs100 implementation will be available on the 4.3BSD tape as user contributed software. Support for login on the displays will appear in 4.3BSD and Ultrix 1.2. For those of you not familiar with X, X is a portable network transparent window system for bitmap displays. Applications can be run from any machine in a local area network via stream connections (currently TCP and Unix domain are supported). X is a fully heirarchic window system intended to be very flexible. Manipulations of existing windows is done with an external window manager; if you don't like ours, write your own. Applications include a terminal emulator (~VT102 and Tek 4010), load monitor, clock, imagen previewer, and several window managers among other things. Version 10 of the protocol should allow easier porting of clients programs and the X server to RISC and similar architectures. The X client programs have been ported to several non-vax architectures and will interoperate with a Vax display server. Several other server ports are in progress elsewhere. A number of new applications have been completed, bugs fixed, and a menu library comes with this release. The QVSS implementation is now complete and very much faster than in the first release. X is available UNSUPPORTED from MIT for $100 and a copy of a Berkeley 4.2 source license. Requests should be sent to "Xrequest@athena.mit.edu" or ("Xrequest@mit-athena.arpa" if your gateway does not yet understand domains), or by US snail to: Project Athena X Request MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Mass. 02139 Bug reports should be sent to Xbugs@athena.mit.edu. We are most interested in hearing from people porting X to new displays. jg@athena.mit.edu Jim Gettys