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



At 03:18 PM 8/14/97 +0300, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote:
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>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.

	Shlomi Fish



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