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From: raduga@netcom.com
Subject: graphic software
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curiouser and curiouser...

i finally *seem* to be getting minix into the old ps/2 here.

had some problems, as the floppy drive seems to be losing its alignment,
and cant read disks written by any other drive anymore, but the HD 
is going strong, and it looks like i might actually get a REAL(tm) os
after all these years. :)

browsing the MINIX-FAQ and infosheet on wuarchive, i found
that all the info was dated back to the 1.5 release or earlier;
it made vague mention of a 'mini-x' that was a GUI but NOT an Xwindow
system, but nowhere else in the docs or the archive could find
any other reference to it.

browsing through the nodak and wuarchive sites, i found a few
kernel-patches with the apparent design of allowing minix
to output graphics, but they were old, and looked kludgy
and primitive (from the documentation)
these being grafx10.tar.Z and minix_vga.tar.Z

I want to know, if there are any *utilities* for viewing/manipulating
images, or at least a working display driver, that i could
program.

Also, all of the archives sites i've so far seen, 
have had a bunch of random utilities tossed into 
directories without description or any explanation 
of what they are.
If there ARE any sites that have files *any* descriptive
indices, it would help tremendously in locating utilities.


BTW, my system here is a ps/2-50 with 1meg ram, 256k vga, and 20meg HD
so anything i do with it is likely going to be squashed down a bit. :)


thanks
-marc


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