On 7 Feb 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >> I think you should feel free to remove all the Amoeba support. > >> Thomas, have you heard from any Amoeba user in the last 10 years or so? > > TK> I see. Then, my patch will not touch AMOEBA code at all, because > TK> I don't think I can remove the code without knowing what it is or > TK> how it is popular. > > Amoeba was an experimental distributed OS developed by Andrew > Tanenbaum (the author of Minix) in the late 80s. I may be wrong, but > I believe that Minix and Amoeba support has been broken for a long > time, and has been removed from the X server in 4.0. It has remained > in XTerm, because that's under the control of Thomas.
I haven't heard from any Amoeba user (that's only since 1996 ;-) Basically the Amoeba support is in main.c, which is in bad need of rewrite (virtually everyone who touches xterm adds ifdef's to that file). -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
