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Article #47604Re: X11 emulation on Mac
From: Mark F Vita
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 18:30
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 18:30
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In article <149@cnam.UUCP> manuel@cnam.UUCP (manuel bouyssou) writes: >Greetings Folks ! > >Yes, I know once again a stupid question, but can somebody tell me if an X11 >emulator is running on a macintosh, and which kind of macintosh ? >We currently use a wide range of Macs (from Lisa to II ci, but don't smile) >with Mac OS and only one with A/UX. The X-Windows emulators is very slow and >sluggy using A/UX. Apple will soon (?) be introducing an X server for the Mac called MacX that will run under the MacOS. I think price is supposed to be around $300. The nice thing is that the server will apparently run on any model of the Mac from the Plus on up. I read an article recently where someone mentioned an Apple rep demoing MacX on the Portable. They claimed that this made it the only portable X server machine on the market. Imagine: get yourself one of those 19.2K-baud error-correcting Telebit modems, and run X11 client programs remotely from your hotel room (!)... -- Mark Vita vita@crd.ge.com General Electric CRD ..!uunet!crd.ge.com!vita Schenectady, NY
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!crdgw1!daredevil!vita From: vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com (Mark F Vita) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: X11 emulation on Mac Keywords: X11, Macintosh, Emulators Message-ID: <5889@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 8 Mar 90 18:30:51 GMT References: <149@cnam.UUCP> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: desdemona!vita@steinmetz.UUCP (Mark F Vita) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: General Electric Corporate R&D Center Lines: 23