On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Robert Black wrote:

> > P.S. my favourite quote from Acorn World 96 :
> >
> > [Me] "So, Russell, how long did it take you to get X11R6 running on ARM
> > Linux ?"
> >
> > [Russ] "About a week - but most of that was compile time."
> 
> Sounds about right. Thats roughly how long it took me to go from no Xarm to
> having a minimal working Xarm (and most of that was compile time). Admittedly
> Scott & Jo did the horrific work of typing in the keymap.

Out of interest, roughly what is involved in porting the X server to a
specific architecture ? I would have guessed that a lot of low-level
graphics code (line drawing, scrolling etc.) would be platform dependent,
and that the task would therefore be extremely time-consuming. 

Cheers,

amit