kearns@garfield.columbia.edu (Steve Kearns) (09/03/86)
Hi. 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). I need to know basic function and where I can get it. Thanks. -steve
jdb@mordor.ARPA (John Bruner) (09/04/86)
>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.] -- John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) MILNET: jdb@mordor [jdb@s1-c.ARPA] (415) 422-0758 UUCP: ...!ucbvax!decwrl!mordor!jdb ...!seismo!mordor!jdb