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>I remember hearing about a product that allowed the use of mac
>graphics in conjunction with unix on another machine.  
>
>Does anyone know what I saw?  (UW comes to mind, whatever 
>that is).

UW is a multiple-window interface to (BSD) UNIX.  It provides up to
seven independent terminal sessions (each runs on a pseudo-terminal).
It emulates an ADM-31, a VT52, and a Tektronix 4010 (although the
Tektronix emulation needs work).  It does not directly provide
access to the Macintosh graphics primitives, but you can do some
simple plotting with the Tektronix emulation.

The current distributed version of UW is v2.10.  I am trying very
hard to put together a new release.  There are a lot of other
demands upon my time, and since I'm not making any money from UW
it is not at the top of my priority queue.  However, I hope to have
something ready for distribution this month.  (My target date has
already slipped quite a bit, I'm afraid.  It has been ten months
since I distributed version 2.10.)

Version 3.x uses a new server.  (The new server will work with UW
versions 1.6 and 2.10.  The 3.x Macintosh program can use the old
server, but you need the new server to take advantage of the
new features.)  Version 3.x allows greater host control over the
presentation of windows (size, visibility, title, emulation type,
etc.).  If the host provides a mechanism for window resizing (e.g.
TIOCSWINSZ in 4.3BSD, TIOCSSIZE in Sun UNIX), then the Macintosh
can be directed to pass window size changes through to the host.

Unless someone offers me lots of money for distribution rights [I
can dream, can't I :-)] it looks like I'll be distributing version 3.x
on the same terms as version 2.10 (free, resale prohibited) through
"mod.mac" and the SUMEX INFO-MAC archive.  [This is something of an
interesting case.  Part of the distribution is UNIX source code and
part is Macintosh binary.  Should it go to "mod.mac.sources",
"mod.mac.binaries", "mod.sources", or some combination of the above?
I'll probably just send it to Roger Long and let him figure out what
to do with it.]
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