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Re: Regarding the Nintendo 64 port of Linux...



Shlomi Fish <shlomi@slink.co.il> writes:

> 
> At 03:18 PM 8/14/97 +0300, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote:
> >
> >You don't quite understand the nature of Motif. It isn't a complete
> >toolkit. Due to a "wise" X/Xt/Motif design, you cannot be off just by
> >using Motif API. Every now and then you'll have to call Xt, and if you
> >decide to do any graphics (even just draw a point), you'll have to
> >call the X)
> >
> 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 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
> small tasks. Yet, that requires the source code of Navigator, and will take
> time to recode the GUI routines.
> 

What about a good old Java VM (or maybe JavaOS)?

-- 
-Alexander

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Alexander L. Belikoff			abel@bfr.co.il
Berger Financial Research Ltd.
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