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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

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