Kurt J. Lidl said:

>In the ancient past, there was one true X distribution, from MIT.
>It installed on many, many different architectures, with many, many
>different types of display hardware.  Typically, each different
>display/OS combination had a different Xserver named for it.
>For example, there was "Xsun" for the Sun mono and 8bit framebuffers,
>and "Xsun24" for the hackish support for Sun 24 bit displays.  There
>was Xqdss for the VaxStations, and so forth.

For years, when I had a few SunOS 4.1.4 systems on my network, I just 
downloaded whatever was current at www.x.org and did a make world.

At least, I'd get a somewhat stable X out of the process, as opposed to
the broken Sun X11R4 port4.

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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com