[comp.windows.x] X-Server for Macintosh

drapeau@jessica.Stanford.EDU (George D. Drapeau) (02/02/90)

In article <9001310938.AA13733@sun1.cefriel>, vanni@IMICEFR.BITNET
(Giovanni Aliberti) writes:
> Subject: X-Server for Macintosh
> 
> I heard that there is an X-Server for the MAC.
> Does anyone know where I can one ??

You bet there is.  White Pine Software has a product called "eXodus"
that runs on any Macintosh from a Plus to any of the II's.  It's a
little slow and it doesn't support color (yet), but it works.  It's an
R3-based server, it comes with its own font compiler (so you can make
Mac "Suitcase" fonts into BDF and therefore SNF files), and it runs
under Finder and MultiFinder.

You need a network driver in your System Folder in order to use it.
We have MacTCP here, and eXodus supports that driver as well as a few
others.

Here is their address and phone number:

	White Pine Software
	94 Route 101A
	P.O. Box 1108
	Amherst, NH 03031
	(603) 886-9050

Allegedly, Apple is coming out with its own version of X under the
Finder, but who knows when that'll ever be out?  I remember hearing
about that many months ago (it even had a part number for ordering),
but I haven't seen any action.  White Pine is out now, and it's pretty
slick, considering the constraints they had to work with.

I hope that helps some.

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