mem@potomac.ads.com (Mark E. Moessinger) (08/22/88)
Does anyone know if x-windows has been ported to the MAC 2. If so how good is performance ??? -- Mark M.
sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (08/23/88)
in article <6818@potomac.ads.com>, mem@potomac.ads.com (Mark E. Moessinger) says: > > Does anyone know if x-windows has been ported to the MAC 2. If so how > good is performance ??? The port is apparently in the works (under A/UX) and will be available some time this fall. No word yet on how much it will cost... Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications UUCP: husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************
hkbirke@mit-amt (Hal Birkeland) (08/24/88)
In article <645@stech.UUCP>, sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes: > in article <6818@potomac.ads.com>, mem@potomac.ads.com (Mark E. Moessinger) says: > > > > Does anyone know if x-windows has been ported to the MAC 2. If so how > > good is performance ??? > > The port is apparently in the works (under A/UX) and will be available some > time this fall. No word yet on how much it will cost... > Like most X11 code, it is free when ftp'ed from various X-ftp sites around the nation. There is one in dec's system (it used to be decwrl.com but that has changed recently) and also expo.lcs.mit.edu. Included in the source is a driver for the Mac II. Therefore, if you are on the arpanet you can get it free... no guarantees on the speed of the server, but it should work... ./server/ddx/macII -- hal If you find any optimized "mi" code out there, please let me know (if you think 8 plane X is slow, try 24).
kennel@minnie.cognet.ucla.edu (Matthew Kennel) (08/25/88)
In article <645@stech.UUCP> sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes: >in article <6818@potomac.ads.com>, mem@potomac.ads.com (Mark E. Moessinger) says: >> Does anyone know if x-windows has been ported to the MAC 2. If so how >> good is performance ??? >The port is apparently in the works (under A/UX) and will be available some >time this fall. No word yet on how much it will cost... Cost? I think I know what the answer should be. I quote from the X man page on my apollo: " Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting docu- mentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty." I don't know if this _requires_ that all X implementations be free of charge, but MIT did _not_ put X in the public domain, so quite possibly this was the intention. There is a loophole, of course. "All the X software is _free_, except for the machine-dependent server program that we wrote that will cost $795." (sounds obnoxiously IBMesque) Digression: This isn't as explicit as the FSF's rule that all FSF software and derivative works must be free of charge, in both binary and source. (That rule, if strictly enforced, might mean that any program linked with FSF's libraries must be free software, which would obviously make it unsuitable for any commercial product. But this is for another newsgroup, sorry) Matt Kennel kennel@cognet.ucla.edu