From: jim@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jim Fulton) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Announcing Release 3 of the X Window System Keywords: X11, R3, window systems Message-ID: <4988@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 27 Oct 88 18:01:46 GMT Sender: jim@mit-vax.LCS.MIT.EDU Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 90 The X Consortium and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science are proud to announce the third release of the X Window System, Version 11. Highlights of this version include: o many bugs have been fixed o backing store and save-unders in sample servers o professionally designed fonts donated by Adobe/Digital and Bitstream o long font names, font name aliasing, font name wildcarding o client and server support (monochrome only) for MacII under A/UX o Xlib support for Cray supercomputers under UNICOS o server support for Parallax Graphics video controllers o correct arc code o version of the X Toolkit Intrinsics adopted by the X Consortium o improved documentation o new Display Manager for running X automatically o new utilities and demos o updated versions of Andrew, Xr11, and InterViews o lots of new user-contributed software, including: - awm, twm, and rtl window managers - fonts from X10, Berkeley Mac Users Group, and INFO-MAC - HP and Sony widget sets - lots of random utilities - previewers for DVI, TROFF, and PIC - mazewar, qix, xmille, and xtrek The sample server, libraries, and applications are not in the public domain, but are freely available. No license is required and there are no royalties; vendors are actively encouraged to base products upon this software. This release is available from the MIT Software Center, the DARPA Internet sites listed below, the UUNET Project, and several consulting/mail-order firms. It is organized into three pieces: the core software, user-contributed toolkits, and the rest of the user-contributed software. Sites that that have access to the Internet will be able to retreive all three pieces themselves from any of the following machines outside of normal business hours (9am-6pm at that machine) using anonymous ftp: USA Internet anonymous ftp Location Hostname Address directory West gatekeeper.dec.com 128.45.9.52 pub/X.V11R3/ Midwest mordred.cs.purdue.edu 192.5.48.2 pub/X11/Release3/ East uunet.uu.net 192.12.141.129 X/X.V11R3/ * expo.lcs.mit.edu 18.30.0.212 pub/R3/ (*) in a galaxy far, far away. (**) If mordred.cs.purdue.edu doesn't respond on 192.5.48.2, try 128.10.2.2. The directories listed above contain a README (which you should read first), a PostScript version of the release notes, and three directories containing split, compressed tar files. A set of three 1600bpi tapes in UNIX tar format plus printed versions of the major manuals and a copy of the new Gettys, Newman, and Scheifler book "X Window System: C Library and Protocol Reference" are available from the MIT Software Center for the following rates (prices include shipping): tapes, manuals, manuals, book book ---------- ---------- North America $125 $400 Everywhere Else $175 $500 To order, please send a letter and a check payable to MIT in US currency for the appropriate amount to: MIT Software Center Technology Licensing Office room E32-300 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 For ordering information, call the "X Ordering Hotline" at +1 (617) 258-8330 after 31 October 1988 or the Software Center at +1 (617) 253-6966. Bob Scheifler, Jim Fulton, Keith Packard, Donna Converse, Michelle Leger X Consortium MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Ralph Swick MIT Project Athena