[comp.sys.amiga.misc] X-Windows for Amy

tsarver@uunet.uu.net (Tom Sarver) (04/10/91)

Yes, there is an X-windows available for Amy.  It's by Ameristar, I believe,
and it also comes bundled with A3000/UX and the AT&T System V Rel. 4 Unix.
I don't know if it works over a modem because it is intended for the Ethernet
adaptor.  But you should be able to do some digging.

Yo,
--Tom Sarver

es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (04/10/91)

In article <50211@nigel.ee.udel.edu> andersen!tsarver@uunet.uu.net (Tom Sarver) writes:
>Yes, there is an X-windows available for Amy.  It's by Ameristar, I believe,
>and it also comes bundled with A3000/UX and the AT&T System V Rel. 4 Unix.
>I don't know if it works over a modem because it is intended for the Ethernet
>adaptor.  But you should be able to do some digging.
>
>Yo,
>--Tom Sarver

	It is made by GfxBase, who also sell the Ethernet boards
that used to be made by Ameristar before Commodore bought them.
	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.

martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt) (04/10/91)

In article <50211@nigel.ee.udel.edu> andersen!tsarver@uunet.uu.net (Tom Sarver) writes:
>Yes, there is an X-windows available for Amy.  It's by Ameristar, I believe,
>and it also comes bundled with A3000/UX and the AT&T System V Rel. 4 Unix.
>I don't know if it works over a modem because it is intended for the Ethernet
>adaptor.  But you should be able to do some digging.
>
>Yo,
>--Tom Sarver


X for AmigaDOS is by GfxBase.  This is a completely different product
than the X bundled with SVR4.  X works over network protocols, such
as DECnet or TCP/IP.  If these protocols can be run over modems, serial
lines, etc. then you can run X on top of them.

GfxBase's X uses Commodore's TCP/IP or Syndesis DECnet.  I believe that
the Syndesis DECnet can be used over serial lines.  The current C=
TCP/IP does not work over serial lines.

Martin

yurkon@CYCVAX.NSCL.MSU.EDU (04/11/91)

In article <20521@cbmvax.commodore.com>, martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt) writes...

>In article <50211@nigel.ee.udel.edu> andersen!tsarver@uunet.uu.net (Tom Sarver) writes:
>>Yes, there is an X-windows available for Amy.  It's by Ameristar, I believe,
>>...
>>Yo,
>>--Tom Sarver
> 
> 
>X for AmigaDOS is by GfxBase.  This is a completely different product
>...
>GfxBase's X uses Commodore's TCP/IP or Syndesis DECnet.  I believe that
>the Syndesis DECnet can be used over serial lines.  The current C=
>TCP/IP does not work over serial lines.
> 
>Martin

Syndesis does support serial lines.  Also GfxBase has SLIP, at least in beta,
it might be released already.

	John