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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: X11 on NEXT
Keywords: X11 NEXT
Message-ID: <1218@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 90 05:19:21 GMT
References: <11675@csli.Stanford.EDU> <7545@cs.utexas.edu> <3750@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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In article <3750@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> mm459504@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Michael Miller) writes:
>If, in fact, the NeXT does have an x11 interpreter, and since it claims to be
>unix compatible, will/would an executable x11 program work on the next, or
>would you need to recompile the source code on a Next cube?

If you want to run the X11 application on the NeXT itself, you'd naturally
have to recompile the source and link it with the X11 client libraries.
The X11 server accepts X protocol streams from anywhere--local to the NeXT
or from client programs running on other machines.

Here's a mind-blower: at EDUCOM we were demonstrating the NeXT
prototype X server by running Microsoft Flight Simulator under DOS
running under DOS Merge running under AIX PS/2 with the DISPLAY
variable set to the NeXT machine.

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Steve Dyer
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