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From: gjh@otter.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Ethernet, Atari?, and X Windows
Message-ID: <570032@otter.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 4 Oct 89 16:53:27 GMT
References: <199@stpl.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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A cautionary note ...

There *was* a short discussion several weeks ago, initiated by someone's
misunderstanding about the "wm" U**x window terminal software. At least one
person thought that Xwindows had been ported to the ST. No-one was able to
confirm that X had been ported. A colleague suggests that a port might not be
as daunting a task as it might first appear, the ST appears to be one of the
types of m/c which the designers of X had in mind when they designed X.

I'd like to echo 1(M) the previous respondent's questions. I think there'd be a
*lot* of interest in networked, X-windowed STs, I mean, what an effective
non-dumb graphics terminal t'would make.

Graham
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