Subject: Re: Accelerated X not available for NetBSD anymore?
To: None <seichter@isc-inf.com>
From: Mark Willey <willey@purdue.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/20/1996 21:03:06
Ralph Seichter writes:
> 
> On 16 Oct 96, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> > today I visited "http://www.xinside.com/" to get information about
> > AccelX because I'm thinking about purchasing it. But I couldn't find
> > any trace of a NetBSD version anymore. Does anybody know what
> > happened? Did they stop the developement of the NetBSD version?
> 
> I made some inquiries about the NetBSD demo several weeks (make that 
> some months) ago, and an Xinside staff member repeatedly told me that 
> the NetBSD demo was planned but "not yet available, so sorry." He 
> also told me that Xinside was not planning to drop their NetBSD 
> development efforts. But nothing happened ever since.

I sent them mail over the weekend inquiring about the CDE for NetBSD.  The
person told me he didn't know if the FreeBSD binary would work and asked me
"Is there a particular reason that you prefer NetBSD over FreeBSD?"

Hm.  I guess if we do install a NetBSD lab, it will run XFree86.

Mark