dcr0@bunny.UUCP (David Robbins) (09/23/88)
A little while back, I asked: > Has anyone implemented an X11 server that will run on a Macintosh under the > Macintosh operating system (NOT A/UX)? Acknowledgements to Kerry Kimbrough <Kimbrough@dsg.csc.ti.com> kmw@ardent <Ardent!kmw@uunet.UU.NET>, and Alan Epstein <ulowell!metasoft!alan@bunny> for their replies which can be summarized thusly: There are no products ready for sale at the present time, but there are two possibilities in the works: 1) White Pine Software (P.O. Box 1108 Amherst, N.H. 03031, 603-886-9050) is said to have a prototype they are working on. It is said to run only on a Mac II, use Apple's EtherTalk card, and use only DECnet protocols. 2) Apple themselves are said to have one "in the skunk works" which they shown at the Xhibition. It is said to be only monochrome, to speak TCP or Appletalk, and to be compatible with Finder and Multifinder. Apple is apparently not free to discuss whether or not, or when, it will ever be a product. I have not at this point contacted either White Pine or Apple to pursue these possibilities, so I can neither confirm nor refute the above information. -- Dave Robbins GTE Laboratories Incorporated drobbins@gte.com 40 Sylvan Rd. ...!harvard!bunny!drobbins Waltham, MA 02254