Be nice Emanuel.  It's obvious the poor fellow just hasn't yet seen or
experienced the full beauty of the VAX architecture :-)  He probably
doesn't know that even the timid VAXstation 2000 was a great little X
Windows box back in its day. 

I also don't think we should be putting down the Linux efforts.  The Linux
people have a lot to learn about _really_ portable coding, and I think
they can learn a lot about it from the NetBSD folk.  I also think that we
should help them get Linux/VAX up and running.

-brian.


On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> From: ville hautakangas

> > Do you know of anybody working on graphics support for VAXen on BSD?
> > What obstacles are there, and is there any programming documentation on
> > the graphics interfaces on VAXen?
> > And isn't it so that the pmax  workstations have the same graphics cards,
> 
> WHICH ONE ?
> 
> > so that effort on an X server could partly
> > be re-used on their ports?
> 
> > And let's not forget Linux-vax and Linux-pmax...
> 
> That's exactly what I try to forget ;-)
> 
> > Let these workstations be slow and awful, I want XFreeVAX anyway.
> 
> WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT !?!?!?!
> awful ?  !?!?
> slow  ?  !*!(&^(&*@


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