Subject: Re: X11 server
From: [email-masked] (Jeff Bakst)

3 Dec 1996 07:15:40 -0800
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Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
> 
> Mu, Paul                   SLC wrote:
> 
> >OS2 people has a free port of X11 using emx, which is the same as cygnus.
> >Is socket in Cygnus gnu robust enough to handle all the networking ?
> 
> Cygnus tools allows to compile X clients and libraries, so, I think, they
> allows compile and X server code too. But it requires writing a lot of code
> to "wrap" X requests to GDI requests, because Xfree video model is not

Under OS/2 the Xservers are native...they do not use GDI calls. So if
anyone 
is to port X over to NT then the servers should be native. The access is
via a special driver...this might be able to be ported to NT.
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