mckeown@ARI-HQ1.ARPA ("MCKEOWN, PAUL") (03/10/87)
SAIC is working on a research project for the Army
Research Institute that will involve using a network of
Sun workstations and Symbolics workstations. The
project requires network transparent windowing
capabilities such as is offered by X Windows. We have
received a copy of X Windows that runs on the Sun
workstation, but have been unable to determine the
existence of a comparable package for the Symbolics. Do
you know if X Windows exists for the Symbolics, or if
anyone is working on such a capability for the Symbolics
or another Lisp machine? Your help is much appreciated.
Paul McKeown
Science Applications Int'l Corp.
424 Delaware, Suite C3
Leavenworth, KS 66048
913-651-7925
------RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU.UUCP (03/11/87)
Server implementations of X Version 10 exist for Symbolics Releases 6.1 and 7.0. The 7.0 version has many bugs fixed that have not been made to the 6.1 version. Both versions suffer from fairly serious semantic incompatibilities, due to the direct use of Symbolics windows in implementing X windows. The 7.0 version also has a somewhat working "client" end, in the form of a remote screen flavor that allows many native Symbolics applications to be displayed on remote X servers without modification. All of the code is available "as is", without support, via anonymous ftp to milo.lcs.mit.edu, in the directories /pub/X-6.1 and /pub/X-7.0 respectively. You can send me bug reports, but I won't guarantee to do anything about them. I am also, as time permits (which hasn't been often lately), working on a "real" implementation of an X Version 11 server, hopefully in a form that will run on both Symbolics and TI machines. Various parties are thinking about Xlib- and XToolkit- equivalent interfaces to V11 from Lisp.