yvw@gmdzi.UUCP (Yvo Van Wezemael) (06/10/88)
The subject is the question. Does such a server exist and where (if yes) can I get it? Yvo -- Yvo Van Wezemael (yvo@L2): Postfach 1240 (Schloss Birlinghoven) D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1 seismo!...unido!gmdzi!yvw.UUCP
barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin) (06/11/88)
International Lisp Associates is working on an X11 implementation for Symbolics machines, and Symbolics will be selling it in the near future. This product primarily will implement the X11 client, but it also includes a port of the portable X11 server. ILA warns, however, that this is a very simple port, intended to help with debugging, not for use as a high-performance X server. I haven't actually used it (we have the beta-test version, but I've only tried the client so far). Also, if you have used the Lispm X10 server that was written at MIT last year, you will notice some behavioral differences. The X10 server brings up a Lisp Machine window for each X window. The X11 server will bring up a single Lisp Machine window in which all X displays will take place. This is a consequence of the fact that it is simply a port of the portable server, as it implements the output by simply writing into a global bit array. Barry Margolin Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com uunet!think!barmar