Re: Good news: no more begging for HW

[offer@sgi.com (richard offer)]

* $ from davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu at "16-Jun:10:01pm" | sed "1,$s/^/* /"
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*    From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon)
*    Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 18:06:41 -0700 (PDT)
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*    I cannot promise anything since there may be some oversubscription
*    to the service :-)
*
*    I think the fairest way would be to publish all these requests on
*    this forum and have the people who care (us) vote on who should get
*    them.  I certainly don't want to be the fascist person who decides
*    who gets what.
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* Before this gets out of control, I just want to express one sentiment
* of high caution.
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* Although it may seem desirable to contribute most of the donation
* hardware to kernel level hackers, this can be a mistake in the making.
* At this stage in the game it is just as important to get userland/libc
* developers machines.
*
* Therefore I suggest that at least one person who knows GNU libc,
* binutils, _and_ gcc internals backwards and forwards be on the top of
* the donation list.

We need an X server if we are ever going to get it usable by real users---or is
everyone assuming its for headles machines only. I would put an X server above
most applications in terms of priority (just below native gcc/libc).

Perhaps one ought to go to Xfree86/someone who knows our hardware (not to start
this thread all over again).

This should be very tighly focused, since an X server is a lot of work and we
need a lot of them, one per board (okay in version one we could only support
1280x1024x8, but that seems a waste of all our spiffy hardware).

I used to have a contact in Xfree86, but I haven't heard from him for a while.

If someone takes the server, I'll try and get the clients libraries done
(assuming that I can get remote access to a box).

richard.

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