krady@maths.tcd.ie (Keith Brady) (12/09/90)
Is it possible to get an X-Windows emulator for the Mac Plus running over a 19200 serial line to a Sparcstation? Memory for the Mac shouldn't be a problem. It seems a tall order but I might as well ask. If it's PD or Shareware, so much the better. Keith -- #> Keith Brady, Maths Dept, TCD, Dublin. <# #> krady@maths.tcd.ie - Ireland's oldest PDP-11 <# #> kjbrady@vax1.tcd.ie - Bigger brother <#
stevewi@hpspdra.HP.COM (Steve Witten) (12/16/90)
> Is it possible to get an X-Windows emulator for the Mac Plus running > over a 19200 serial line to a Sparcstation? Memory for the Mac shouldn't > be a problem. It seems a tall order but I might as well ask. If it's PD > or Shareware, so much the better. > > Keith > > -- > #> Keith Brady, Maths Dept, TCD, Dublin. <# > #> krady@maths.tcd.ie - Ireland's oldest PDP-11 <# > #> kjbrady@vax1.tcd.ie - Bigger brother <# ---------- The specifications for a the X Window System state that the only restriction on client/server communications is that it be over a "reliable byte-stream" transport. However, most commercial suppliers of X interpret the term "reliable byte stream" to mean TCP. While it is technically feasible (I worked on a project that used Kermit as the transport between a UNIX client and a server running on an IBM PC), you probably won't be able to buy such a beast -- you'll probably have to roll your own... I'm still waiting for the same thing as you. BTW, the client library and the server have to both be coded to use serial communications. You could always try SLIP too (but then you'd probably have to implement TCP on SLIP on your Mac). =============================================================================== Steve Witten stevewi%hpspdra@hplabs.hp.com Intelligent Networks Operation ...!hplabs!hpspdra!stevewi Hewlett-Packard Co. stevewi@hpspdra.spd.hp.com
shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) (12/16/90)
stevewi@hpspdra.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes: >The specifications for a the X Window System state that the only >restriction on client/server communications is that it be over a >"reliable byte-stream" transport. However, most commercial suppliers >of X interpret the term "reliable byte stream" to mean TCP. While it >is technically feasible (I worked on a project that used Kermit as the >transport between a UNIX client and a server running on an IBM PC), >you probably won't be able to buy such a beast -- you'll probably have >to roll your own... At a recent computer expo here in DC I saw an NCD X-terminal running X-windows over a 9600 baud V.32 line using their proprietary X-remote protocol. Very impressive, though not quite as fast as the more common ethernet connection. Still, I wouldn't try to run anything serious over a 2400 baud line. :-)