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Wanted: Help with XWindows/Exodus/MacX over Sun/Mac II Ethernet

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From: Peter Campbell
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 05:08
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  Here at the Research Labs we've been working on a system in Turbo
Prolog on IBM XTs, ATs, etc, and we're running out of memory.  We have
also had the problem of a number of people working on the same files on
different machines, resulting in a number of similar files that are used
by only one person each.  We have also been a bit limited in our
windowing and graphics capabilities.

  Seeing as we have on loan a Sun 386i, and have a few Mac IIs about the
place and more coming in, we were thinking about hooking up the Macs to
the Sun over an Ethernet network using PC-NFS, having the central files
on the Sun, and using XWindows or something similar to handle the
windowing and graphics.  To save the Sun's memory this would be handled
by the Macs, and if we ever got more Suns, we could then swap over onto
the Suns with no incompatability problems.

  If you have tried something like this with XWindows, or any of
the similar packages like Exodus or the new MacX for the Mac II, and
have any advice you may be willing to share, could you please Email me
at the address below or contact me some other way. 

  Thanks in Advance.


Peter K. Campbell
2/M6
Telecom Research Laboratories          | Phone : 03 541 6751
P.O. Box 249                           | Fax   : 03 543 6026
Clayton                                | Email : pcampb@rhea.trl.OZ.AU
Victoria 3168
Australia
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Subject: Wanted: Help with XWindows/Exodus/MacX over Sun/Mac II Ethernet
Keywords: XWindows, Exodus, MacX
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Date: 27 Feb 90 05:08:37 GMT
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