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From: rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X on Convex
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Date: 25 Jul 89 20:39:29 GMT
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We are Convex installation #6 (1985).  All versions of X since V9R4 have
compiled and run fine on the Convex.  Convex supports X11 for a small fee as
a product called CX.  We did find that the Convex ethernet packet size is
smaller than that in X and undetectected by X.  There are three solutions:
(1) Don't flush X data larger than 8K bytes at time.  (2) Recompile the Convex
UNIX kernal for a larger packet.  Convex TAC will do this for you.  (3) Recompile
X for a smaller packet.  (I don't off-hand remember the names of the Convex
system variable or X variable for the packete size.)