From: dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com (David E Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Clarifications of X386 1.2E 1.0 announcement
Date: 22 Jul 92 07:00:46 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 17:41:03 EDT
Message-Id: <9207212141.AA26470@expo.lcs.mit.edu>

This is a followup to the announcement of X386 1.2E 1.0 that was posted
on Saturday, July 18, 1992.  This is solely to clarify a few points.

1) The name of this product is X386 1.2E 1.0.  Please be very careful when
   referencing this name, so as not to confuse it with commercial products
   from SGCS (Snitily Graphics Consulting Service).  We don't really want
   to change the name at this late date, but there has been confusion,
   and if it persists, we will have to change the name.

2) This is not a product of Thomas Roell or SGCS.  Any reports of problems
   with X386 1.2E should be sent to <x386@physics.su.oz.au>.  If there is
   a reason to contact Mark or Thomas about a bug, we will do so.  But all
   reports should come to us first.

3) This is free (but copyrighted) software.  It will remain free software,
   for the forseeable future (i.e. at the very least, until X11R6 is
   released).  We will support it, and keep up to date with MIT public
   fixes.  This software, being freely available, may or may not become
   part of commercial products; we are not restricting that.  When X11R6
   rolls around, we will be working with SGCS to submit a merge of our
   software with their SVGA product to X11R6.  Depending on what the
   final outcome is, we may or may not continue this project past then
   (and no, I have no idea when X11R6 is coming, or what will be in it,
   so don't ask).

4) At this time, support for Mach386 and 386BSD 0.1 is not yet ready.
   Mach386 is reportedly close (which is why the original announcement did
   not list it as working correctly).  The release of 386BSD 0.1 caught us
   by surprise.  X386 1.2E 1.0 is up on 386BSD 0.0, but the new release
   is not yet ready, and we don't have a time table.  BSD/386 and Linux
   were reported by Beta-Testers to be ready before the announcement was
   posted.  For now, requests for support for these systems are being
   directed to the Beta-Tester who has volunteer to provide source and/or
   binary support.  We will be looking into merging support of these OS's
   into the core release, but since none of the core team is currently
   running any of these OS's, we have no way to test, so it will be a
   slow process.

5) Shared library support for SVR3 is still not present.  If anyone wants
   to volunteer to put that together, a lot of people would be grateful.

As always, all requests for information, and other communications on
X386 1.2E should be directed to <x386@physics.su.oz.au>

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