NanoX was Re: RTEMS Shell

[amimjf at connectfree.co.uk]

>> Rosimildo.. do you have any advice on NanoX/MicroWindows?
>
>I had some examples on my site, bu they are too old. Technically,
>you do need a file system to run Nano-X, but you might need it
>as soon as you need to store "Fonts", and some configuration.
>On RTEMS, NanoX runs as a process linked along with the
>rest of the system, so there is no concept of "client" and "server".
>
>I personally prefer the Nano-X API, but if you have a team that
>knows the Windows API ( SDK kind ), you better of with
>MicroWindows.
>
>Hopefully one day, I'll find time to get my old RTEMS PC from the
>garage and update these demos, but the days are too short. :-)

I remember people having some sucess with MicroWindows in the past, maybe it was you :)

on a diffrent matter, does rtems have any drivers or awareness of the vesa framebuffer ? - i suspect that would give higher performance / lower loading on most embedded systems.

regards

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Matthew J Fletcher
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