Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!pyro!bell From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell) Subject: Re: MacX TCP tool? Message-ID: <1990Aug30.114301.2052@pyro.ei.dupont.com> Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging References: <197@pacvax.UUCP> <4074@lib.tmc.edu> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 90 11:43:01 GMT In article <4074@lib.tmc.edu> an12280@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) writes: >In article <197@pacvax.UUCP> matt@pacvax.UUCP (Matt Kingman) writes: >> MacX includes (is supposed to include) a MacTCP connection tool. > >If MacX ever ships. I've been asking about it for almost a year now, and I >never get definite answers about shipping date or where I can buy it. I've >been using an alpha version (which I *didn't* get from Apple for several months now and like it better than eXodus, but... > >I recently heard a rumor going around NASA that Apple has decided to offer >MacX because they must, but do not plan to support it. Instead, they will >suggest that people run A/UX. I don't want to use up 150 MB of disk space >just to run X windows on my Mac. MacX, with its font files, takes up less >than 2 MB of disk and doesn't require another operating system which is >incompatible with many of my programs and INITs. > > > >David Gutierrez >an12280@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu > >"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard > > >And DON'T tell me that DEC will include MacX as part of LANworks. I don't want to put 800 Macs on DECnet and our local DEC office doesn't want to hear from us unless we're ordering a new Vax or an upgrade for an existing one. Besides, no one there knows any thing about them McIntoshes. Not only is MacX shipping(I have a release copy on my desk), the support from Apple for the product has been great. I also had an alpha copy (through LEGAL means), and the additions made to the final copy are substantial in both features and speed. I'm not using it with DEC stuff; it works just fine over TCP/IP with out own MacBLITZ Unix nubus card for the mac. I would highly recommend MacX over eXodus; it is faster, cheaper and has more features..... Mike Bell -- ******************************************************************************** Mike Bell Internet: mike_bell@zip.ei.dupont.com Senior Engineer CSNet: BELLMA%ERVX01@dupont.com DuPont Electronic Imaging Applelink: D2747 Core Technology Group MacBLITZ..... When you feel the need for speed.......... ******************************************************************************** --