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From: Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Can X Be Used As A General-Purpose IPC Mechanism?
Message-ID: <19833@cup.portal.com>
Date: 24 Jun 89 01:45:13 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Can X be used as a general-purpose IPC mechanism across a network, or
is X so specifically tailored to user-interface functions that it is
not well-suited towards more general IPC and client/server functions?
The way I understand it, X officially supports TCP/IP and DECnet.
Are there plans to support TOPS, Novell, the Microsoft LAN Manager,
and Appletalk?  (Did I leave out any other obvious nets?)
Thanks,
Will