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Article #21134Re: X-windows for the Mac? (question)
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1987 01:33
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1987 01:33
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In article <3083@husc6.UUCP> stew@endor.UUCP (Stew Rubenstein) writes:
> In article <16518@gatech.edu> royt@gatech.UUCP (Roy M Turner) writes:
> >This is probably a pointless question, but is there or is there likely to
> >be a version of X-windows for the Mac?
>
> Yes, for certain it'll be part of A/UX. That may mean that the
> impetus will be there to port it to the current Mac O/S.
There is at least one non A/UX port too as well, I think someone at MIT
was doing it. However I doubt that you will see any port that will work
over a modem. Even at 9600 baud I doubt the throughput would be terribly
good.
-nazgul
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!apollo!nazgul From: nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: X-windows for the Mac? (question) Message-ID: <383ec1cf.b0a1@apollo.uucp> Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 20:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: apollo.383ec1cf.b0a1 Posted: Mon Nov 2 20:33:00 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 22:17:14 EST References: <16518@gatech.edu> <3083@husc6.UUCP> Reply-To: nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley) Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA Lines: 18