From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: The MGR window system and the Macintosh
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 15:07:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <566D98A2-B976-44A9-BD53-F10ECC7E24BC@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W5OUdEz6Pp7aY7bWK_8_Xu+cM7asHEpqbVh5CtDorJYKA@mail.gmail.com>
> On Aug 4, 2022, at 2:14 PM, Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 3:46 PM John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Does anyone know more about MGR, particularly on the Mac? That page has
>> the source for MGR 0.69, but there's no mention of the Macintosh in it
>> (aside from comments about how it was supported on older versions...)
>
> I got it working once under FreeBSD back in the 4.x days.
>
> It wasn't particularly notable, or at least didn't leave much of an
> impression; it presented a pretty "standard" (and primitive!)
> graphical experience. I believe it was monochrome, with amber
> on black.
>
> I don't know anything about it on the Mac, I'm afraid; I suspect it
> probably ran in a Window under Finder, but that is pure speculation.
From its wikipedia entry:
The initial Macintosh port was done on a Macintosh Plus
computer using the Lightspeed C compiler. It was a hybrid
port in that many of the low-level operations were passed
on to QuickDraw instead of using the internal bitmap
code. The application did not conform to the Macintosh
user interface guidelines as it took over the entire
screen. The initial version used either available serial
port as the communications channel. A later update of the
port could use either ethernet or serial communications.
[No reference to how this was obtained]
MGR reference manual (from Stephen A. Uhler's home page):
https://sau.homeip.net/papers/mgrman.pdf
Architecture and Design of the MGR Window System:
https://sau.homeip.net/papers/arch.pdf
Here it says a port to Macintosh-Plus was done in two weeks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-04 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-04 19:45 [TUHS] " John Floren
2022-08-04 20:18 ` [TUHS] " Al Kossow
2022-08-04 20:29 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-04 23:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:16 ` Richard Salz
2022-08-04 23:21 ` Bakul Shah
2022-08-04 23:42 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-04 23:51 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:58 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-05 4:26 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-04 23:56 ` Larry McVoy
2022-09-16 22:51 ` Michael Parson
2022-09-16 23:00 ` Henry Bent
2022-08-04 21:14 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-04 22:07 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2022-08-04 23:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-08-05 0:37 ` Andrew Newman
2022-08-05 2:14 ` Al Kossow
2022-08-05 13:33 ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 1:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-08-09 1:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-08-05 8:38 ` arnold
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