sunny@hoptoad.UUCP (03/12/87)
Does the Mac do windows? X style?
Any software in existance? vaporware?
In development?
Sunny
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USENET: {sun,ptsfa,well,lll-crg,ihnp4,ucsfcgl,nsc,frog}!hoptoad!sunnyc60a-3eb@tart7.UUCP (03/12/87)
> Does the Mac do windows? X style?
Yes. Apple has ported X to their version of UNIX(tm) which
is called A/UX(tm). A/UX will be released later this year.
--- Bob Heiney
c60a-3eb@lemon.Berkeley.Eduhuxham@apple.UUCP (Fred Huxham) (03/18/87)
U.C. Berkeley has ported X-Windows to run under A/UX. Fred
rw@beatnix.UUCP (03/24/87)
In article <537@apple.UUCP> huxham@apple.UUCP (Fred Huxham) writes: >U.C. Berkeley has ported X-Windows to run under A/UX. >Fred But is anyone porting X-Windows to run under the Mac O/S? It would seem that the Mac in its various incarnations is perfectly powerful enough to be a display server without need of the overhead (and hardware cost) of running Unix. Russell Williams ..{ucbvax!sun,lll-lcc!styx,altos86,bridge2}!elxsi!rw
jww@sdcsvax.UUCP (03/26/87)
In article <315@elxsi.UUCP>, rw@beatnix.UUCP (Russell Williams) writes: > But is anyone porting X-Windows to run under the Mac O/S? X windows requires the ability to make a local socket connection. The AppleTalk design inexplicably excludes this concept. It also requires multi-tasking. You can fake a background server with a series of clever hacks (as did Mac/IP) but this is a lot of work and probably not worth the effort. -- Joel West {ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww (ihnp4!gould9!joel once I fix news) jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu if you must
omh@nancy.UUCP (03/29/87)
According to an Apple spokesperson at a BCS demo of the SE and Mac II,
X Windows was running on a Mac II during the demo that introduced the II
(was it called AppleWorld?). Of course, there was no indication of its
shipping date or any other info.
Owen Hartnett
Brown University Computer Science
omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET
omh%cs.brown.edu@relay.cs.net-relay.ARPA
{ihnp4,allegra}!brunix!omhzben@umd5.UUCP (04/01/87)
In article <2901@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes: > X windows requires the ability to make a local socket connection. > The AppleTalk design inexplicably excludes this concept. One probably does not want the data for a local socket connection to go onto the network and back in the same host, so in any case one wants to short-circuit local socket connections. Is this a complaint that the Macintosh AppleTalk driver does not provide a convenience feature? The usual response to such a restriction is to erect a superstructure to short-circuit local data and pass the non-local data to the real driver... -- umd5.UUCP <= {seismo!mimsy,ihnp4!rlgvax}!cvl!umd5!zben Ben Cranston zben @ umd2.UMD.EDU Kingdom of Merryland UniSys 1100/92 umd2.BITNET "via HASP with RSCS"