[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Regarding the Nintendo 64 port of Linux...
Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hmmm. Well, as I said it is possible to code a special version of the X/Xt
> shared libraries that will do all the graphics themeselves. What I mean is
> that XOpenDisplay() will put the computer in graphics mode in which the
> other functions will draw stuff on the screen _on their own_ (i.e. without
> I/O with an X server socket). All, in all, with 4 MB it looks to me
You don't seem to fully comperhand what it would be involved in -
X11 is an entire phylosophy (events, data structures, protocols,
programming techniques). You won't get away from this with much
less than porting the entire X11 suite (Xlib, Xt, XIntrinsics,
X/Motif, the other X11 add-ons).
pretty
> much like a hopeless cause. Maybe it would be best to write a MIPS-based
> NavigatorOS, that will run a special version of netscape navigator as the
> boot process, and maybe allow to do some system maintainance, and other
Now THIS sounds more like it - maybe have a Java environment and
run HotJava (Sun's Java-writen browser) on it? This will give you
the rest of the benefits of Java.
> small tasks. Yet, that requires the source code of Navigator, and will take
> time to recode the GUI routines.
Another reason to look at Hot Java (or other Java-based solutions
in general).
--Amos
--
--Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for
133/13 Shlomo Ben Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL amos@gezernet.co.il | -- Anonymous