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From: davet@oakhill.UUCP (David Trissel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacLayers or System V uw server??
Message-ID: <2364@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 05:37:50 GMT
References: <458@amanue.UUCP> <2810@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davet@oakhill.UUCP (David Trissel)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
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In article <2810@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka,ih,) writes:

>>did put in a Layers driver which supposedly works.  Once upon a time there was
>>something on the net about a piece of software called MacLayers, which was a
>>Mac program that would emulate a Layers windowing terminal.

>MacLayers basically does "DMD" (AT&T 5620) emulation ("layers") on the
>Macintosh under a System V environment.
>
>MacLayers was written a few years ago by Tom Rhodes (at the time) working at
>AT&T Bell Laboratories.  As of a few months ago, he left AT&T to go to work
>for Compaq.

There is another software package (unfortunately with the same MacLayers name)
which has just started beta testing by some USEnet volunteers for release 
in probably a few weeks. This MacLayers was initially coded to run with
System V and the AT&T xt protocol but due to non-portable AT&T code was
abandoned only to be resurrected with a BSD socket interface. Since
Release 4 of System V will support sockets this software package should
run with System V starting with Release 4.

An announcement will be made in this newsgroup when the package is posted
to the net.

 -- Dave Trissel  Austin