[comp.sys.mac] X11 emulation on Mac

manuel@cnam.UUCP (manuel bouyssou) (03/05/90)

Greetings Folks !

Yes, I know once again a stupid question, but can somebody tell me if an X11
emulator is running on a macintosh, and which kind of macintosh ?
We currently use a wide range of Macs (from Lisa to II ci, but don't smile)
with Mac OS and only one with A/UX. The X-Windows emulators is very slow and
sluggy using A/UX.

So, is there in the world any company who is working about such problem ? The 
purpose of such emulation should be to use some softwares running on others
computers (like Vaxes and so on) and use them on a mac through a Kinetics
Fastpath box Ethernet/Localtalk converter.

Thank's for all replies !....

Manuel BOUYSSOU
Laboratoire d'Informatique - Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
Paris - France.

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vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com (Mark F Vita) (03/09/90)

In article <149@cnam.UUCP> manuel@cnam.UUCP (manuel bouyssou) writes:
>Greetings Folks !
>
>Yes, I know once again a stupid question, but can somebody tell me if an X11
>emulator is running on a macintosh, and which kind of macintosh ?
>We currently use a wide range of Macs (from Lisa to II ci, but don't smile)
>with Mac OS and only one with A/UX. The X-Windows emulators is very slow and
>sluggy using A/UX.

Apple will soon (?) be introducing an X server for the Mac called MacX
that will run under the MacOS.  I think price is supposed to be around
$300.  The nice thing is that the server will apparently run on any
model of the Mac from the Plus on up.  I read an article recently
where someone mentioned an Apple rep demoing MacX on the Portable.
They claimed that this made it the only portable X server machine on
the market.  Imagine: get yourself one of those 19.2K-baud
error-correcting Telebit modems, and run X11 client programs remotely
from your hotel room (!)...

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ewing@venus.ycc.yale.edu (03/09/90)

In article <149@cnam.UUCP>, manuel@cnam.UUCP (manuel bouyssou) writes:
> 
> ... can somebody tell me if an X11
> emulator is running on a macintosh, and which kind of macintosh ?

I have been running eXodus from White Pine Software on a Mac IIci.
It's pretty good, not very buggy, and reasonably fast.  It uses
MacTCP for TCP/IP or one of a couple of other drivers for TCP/IP or
DECnet.  I've been using MacTCP with an Apple Ethernet board.

White Pine Software
94 Route 101A, P.O. Box 1108
Amherst, New Hampshire
USA 03031

+1-603-886-9050

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palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) (03/09/90)

From article <5889@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, by vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com (Mark F Vita):
> In article <149@cnam.UUCP> manuel@cnam.UUCP (manuel bouyssou) writes:
>>Greetings Folks !
>>

> They claimed that this made it the only portable X server machine on
> the market.  Imagine: get yourself one of those 19.2K-baud
> error-correcting Telebit modems, and run X11 client programs remotely
> from your hotel room (!)...

  Gee I have benn doing that with a Toshiba 3200 and ISC Xwindows
for six months now. What's really impressive is that a friend of mine
has a Cellular Telebit and does it from his car.

---Bob
 
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