NanoX was Re: RTEMS Shell

[Gerke Kok]

Hi,
just to make you aware of an old project that already did something with VESA and RTEMS:
	http://picotk.sourceforge.net/
just my two cents.
wkr,
Gerke

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On 19/03/02 at 11:29 amimjf at connectfree.co.uk wrote:

>>> 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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>www.amimjf.org
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