nanogui: Porting NX/uWindows to 16-bit UNIX ?
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Porting NX/uWindows to 16-bit UNIX ?
From:
Alan Cox ####@####.####
Date:
10 Oct 2004 15:23:20 +0100
Message-Id: <1097414444.29254.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Sul, 2004-10-10 at 11:02, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> a reference yet to my question. I am looking for a small GUI to port
> to a small (16-bit) UNIX system. The systems are Minix on a PC (in
> 16-b mode with a 640x480 VGA) and ULTRIX on a PDP-11 with a 1024x256
> color framebuffer (sort of accelerated: both "raw bitmap" and some
> specialized functions done by the graphics processor itself are
> available) and a mouse.
An early version of it ran on ELKS (a Linux 8086 subset) but it was
pretty tight even then. That was a 64/64K address space box with 640K of
RAM and swapping.