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



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

> 
> Hey, do you remember the article Ira mentioned about the group that created
> a port of Linux for the NES 64-bit? Well, it mentioned that they had
> problems running X there because Nintendo 64 only has 4 MB of RAM, and a
> limited capacity of disk space. However, the primary objective of the
> project was to enable Netscape Navigator to run on a NES64.
> 
> So I have this idea: if we only want to run Netscape Navigator, and it only
> uses the Motif API for presenting its GUI, then maybe one can rewrite Motif
> to do the job. The special Motif DLL will do all the writing to the screen
> on its own (w.o using X-win) and may probably support only one application.
> We should also use a version of Netscape that is dynamically-linked with
> Motif, of course. If Navigator still relies on X, for presenting graphics
> for example, than we can prepare a specail version of Xlib, but that would
> be messier still.
> As for other application - the multitasking can only be done using virtual
> consoles, but it might be possible to run several Motif/X apps each on its
> own console.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 

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)

-- 
-Alexander

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