Announcing Release 3 of the X Window System
Jim Fulton
announce the third release of the X Window System, Version 11. Highlights of
this version include:
o many bugs have been fixed
o backing store and save-unders in sample servers
o professionally designed fonts donated by Adobe/Digital and Bitstream
o long font names, font name aliasing, font name wildcarding
o client and server support (monochrome only) for MacII under A/UX
o Xlib support for Cray supercomputers under UNICOS
o server support for Parallax Graphics video controllers
o correct arc code
o version of the X Toolkit Intrinsics adopted by the X Consortium
o improved documentation
o new Display Manager for running X automatically
o new utilities and demos
o updated versions of Andrew, Xr11, and InterViews
o lots of new user-contributed software, including:
- awm, twm, and rtl window managers
- fonts from X10, Berkeley Mac Users Group, and INFO-MAC
- HP and Sony widget sets
- lots of random utilities
- previewers for DVI, TROFF, and PIC
- mazewar, qix, xmille, and xtrek
The sample server, libraries, and applications are not in the public domain,
but are freely available. No license is required and there are no royalties;
vendors are actively encouraged to base products upon this software.
This release is available from the MIT Software Center, the DARPA Internet
sites listed below, the UUNET Project, and several consulting/mail-order firms.
It is organized into three pieces: the core software, user-contributed
toolkits, and the rest of the user-contributed software. Sites that that have
access to the Internet will be able to retreive all three pieces themselves
from any of the following machines outside of normal business hours (9am-6pm
at that machine) using anonymous ftp:
USA Internet anonymous ftp
Location Hostname Address directory
West gatekeeper.dec.com 128.45.9.52 pub/X.V11R3/
Midwest mordred.cs.purdue.edu 192.5.48.2 pub/X11/Release3/
East uunet.uu.net 192.12.141.129 X/X.V11R3/
* expo.lcs.mit.edu 18.30.0.212 pub/R3/
(*) in a galaxy far, far away.
(**) If mordred.cs.purdue.edu doesn't respond on 192.5.48.2, try 128.10.2.2.
The directories listed above contain a README (which you should read first), a
PostScript version of the release notes, and three directories containing
split, compressed tar files.
A set of three 1600bpi tapes in UNIX tar format plus printed versions of the
major manuals and a copy of the new Gettys, Newman, and Scheifler book "X
Window System: C Library and Protocol Reference" are available from the MIT
Software Center for the following rates (prices include shipping):
tapes,
manuals, manuals,
book book
---------- ----------
North America $125 $400
Everywhere Else $175 $500
To order, please send a letter and a check payable to MIT in US currency for
the appropriate amount to:
MIT Software Center
Technology Licensing Office
room E32-300
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
For ordering information, call the "X Ordering Hotline" at +1 (617) 258-8330
after 31 October 1988 or the Software Center at +1 (617) 253-6966.
Bob Scheifler, Jim Fulton, Keith Packard, Donna Converse, Michelle Leger
X Consortium
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Ralph Swick
MIT Project Athena
Sean Casey
Is it as fast as X10.4, or as slow as X11.2?
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Jim Fulton
> Is it as fast as X10.4, or as slow as X11.2?
Yes.
As always, it depends on *which* platform you're using. Several of the sample
servers are quite fast, even in color.
I suspect that you're referring to the cfb code. No, it hasn't been
substantially changed (there has been some improvement). There's lots that can
be done.
Brain in Neutral
>
>> Is it as fast as X10.4, or as slow as X11.2?
>
> servers are quite fast, even in color.
Ok: how about a VAXstation 2000, Ultrix 2.2, qvss?
Jim Fulton
> Ok: how about a VAXstation 2000, Ultrix 2.2, qvss?
It is going to be a little bit faster than R2. If you want to use gcc you
make it substantially faster. See contrib/server/speedups/ for hints.