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From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Subject: Re: NetBSD...Now for the 68k
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brian d. carlstrom (bri@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: i was addressing the graphics system of the apollo and is important
: because there is no character mode. you have to start off drawing the
: characters in graphics mode right away. i think there mught be hope of
: using the X11R5 apollo distibution since it is based on the apollo BSD
: enviroment, but i can say for sure.

Not! The Apollo X11R5 server is based on gpr_$xxxx calls which is going
to be useless for netbsd0.x... I'll continue the graphics stuff but I'm
NOT going to do a /usr/lib/libgpr.a and a /usr/lib/libctm.a!

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