Subject: Re: X server as a Unix system process
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/15/1997 15:10:56
In article <199707142301.QAA05522@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>,
	Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> Heh... no kidding... How often does my X11R6 Xsun crash?  Oh, often,
> especially if I'm using later versions of Netscape :-)

That's why I would like to keep the X11 server as an own process like
it is now.

> I'm told that the reason NT moved graphics from being a "process" to the
> "micro"-kernel was for performance..

That's exactly what I heard, too. But I would prefer the 3.51 sollution
because it would stop my NT system at work from crashing if I use
Exceed (old windows 3.1 X11 server) under certain circumstances.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/