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X11 for Xenix?
Posted by ishtar666 on December 12th, 2003


Is it possible to run X11 on Xenix? I haven't found any information on
google; XFree86.org has an older archive, 2.1 I believe for SCO, but I
think it's for System V/386. Would it maybe work on Xenix too.


Posted by Bela Lubkin on December 12th, 2003


"ishtar666" wrote:

XFree86 would have to be built specifically for Xenix. If it doesn't
already have that support (and I doubt whether it does), getting it to
work would be a big project. You would probably have to start by doing
a port of a modern gcc to Xenix, a large project in itself.

A number of ancient SCO Technical Articles indicate that X11 _was_
supported on Xenix back in 1989 or so. See:

http://stage.sco.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?103396
http://stage.sco.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?109102
http://stage.sco.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?102693
http://stage.sco.com/cgi-bin/ssl_reference?109144

The last of those includes a list of video cards supported by the last
version of SCO Xsight for Xenix.

So, if you can find a copy of SCO Xsight 2.2 + the SCO Xsight 2.3 EFS,
you might be able to use one of those ancient cards.

Be aware that Xenix supports a maximum of 16MB RAM -- a rather severe
limitation for doing much with X...


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