oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (07/28/87)
In article <1831@vax135.UUCP> ths@vax135.UUCP (Thomas Speeter) writes: >whether there is an adaptation of X that can run as an application on >the Mac. The macintosh is multi-tasking enough that you could implement light-weight processes to run the server (most Macintosh Forth systems provide light-weight processes for example.) You could even implement time slicing through the Macintosh's Vertical Blanking Task Manager. You could even arrange the Mac implementation of the X client library so that if it discovered it was running under Switcher it could run as a Switcher background task, so that you could run multiple X clients in Switcher background, with the X server managing the Macintosh screen. (and possibly other clients talking to that same X over the serial ports.) It would be difficult to override the graphics system calls of arbitrary Macintosh applications to let them use the X server though. All of the above would be a lot of work though. Now, I know the next part will sound like a flame but it really isn't: What X applications would you like to run on a macintosh? i.e, in what application areas is there a tool that runs under X that is better than an <$100 tool for the Macintosh? What makes it better for you? Do you use a group of applications that work together as smoothly as the Macs'? I only use X because Sun has a decent lisp (I use lucid) that can talk to X, and there is no equivalent lisp for the Macintosh. please E-mail me your answers, and, if there is any interest, I will repost. --- David Phillip Oster --My Good News: "I'm a perfectionist." Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --My Bad News: "I don't charge by the hour." Uucp: {seismo,decvax,...}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu
david@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) (07/29/87)
I think it would more be a matter of allowing a Mac to serve as an Xterminal to run applications specific to ones work environment. Here at Hp many of us are just discovering X and potential applications related to the software development that we do here. If we start using X applications running on say an 840 or 825srx it would be real nice if my display was my Mac. It would be especially nice if it could be my Mac + or a Mac SE as I don't have a Mac II. So, it is more a matter of the Mac being able to seamlessly fit into an X environment, rather than my wanting to run an X word processor or even X Macpaint. Though it sure would be interesting to provide the same type of capabilities that Appleshare does on all the wonderful Hp boxes I have available, then I wouldnt have to lug my Jasmine 80 to work.