[Coco] Possible OS-9 Project

[John E. Malmberg]

David Hazelton wrote:
> John E. Malmberg wrote:
> 
>> So it would be better to provide a library that could interface to 
>> both X-11/Motif and Microsoft Windows than to try to get to the 
>> hardware.  I am not sure what Macintosh needs now that their OS is 
>> UNIX based.
>>
> 
> I believe that the floppy driver for Mac X is just a BSD driver, taken 
> from MKLINUX. Apple no longer supports internal floppies, since anything 
> that Apple supports under X doesn't have internal floppy controllers, 
> just USB floppies.  And of course that driver is not supported, it just 
> works.  (But I could be wrong, since I don't have X)

X-11/Motif is a standard Graphical User Interface application interface.

X-11 is Open Source and available for almost all UNIX operating systems, 
OpenVMS and others.

Motif is a commercial library that is available from the comercial OS 
providers.

The only major operating systems that I am aware of that do not support 
X-11/Motif are Microsoft Windows, and possibly Apple Macintosh, but now 
that the Macintosh OS is UNIX based, they probably support X-11 also.

A Gnu functional clone appears to be available for LINUX.

Access to a real floppy disk is a different issue.

-John
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