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Re: OpenWindows on Next?

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From: Ron Pomeroy x(Coop)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:54
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In article <1993Jan12.153957.9142@newsgate.sps.mot.com> reed@prism.sps.mot.com  
(Tim Reed) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan12.004054.472@cognet.ucla.edu>  
>>bill@ganesha.cognet.ucla.edu (William M. Eldridge) writes:
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to run OpenWindows on a NeXT?
>>> Where, how much, etc.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Bill (bill@cognet.ucla.edu)
>>
>>Someone here has done this using coXist to emulate an X terminal but  
>>he had to do a lot of tweaking to get it to work. He said it was VERY  
>>slow also so he gave it up.
>>
>>--
>>-----------------------------------
>>Tim Reed
>>reed@prism.sps.mot.com
>>-----------------------------------

co-Xist3.0 is easily 5 to 10 times faster than the 2.1 version.
There is nothing slow about X11 on the NeXT (period)  I here Cub-X's
new version is much faster than it's old one also.
--
Ronald Pomeroy		[Objective-Cruntime: [Smalltalk runtime]];
Advanced Micro Devices	[self dream-on];
CAM Applications Group
rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
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From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
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Subject: Re: OpenWindows on Next?
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