Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!audfax!arnold From: arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.large Subject: Re: Running X11 or NeWS on mainframes Message-ID: <260@audfax.audiofax.com> Date: 13 Sep 90 22:10:18 GMT References: <6102@drutx.ATT.COM> Organization: AudioFAX Inc., Atlanta Lines: 14 In article <6102@drutx.ATT.COM> neal@druhi.ATT.COM (Neal D. McBurnett) writes: >It would seem that NeWS would be better suited to migrating functionality >down to the server - have people done that with editors? Goodness gracious, how quickly people forget. Take a look at the Research Editions of Unix, V8 - V10. In particular, all the stuff with the Blit the 5620, and these days the gnot; e.g. the text editor 'sam' which runs the user interface stuff in the terminal and the file manipulation stuff on the host. -- Arnold Robbins AudioFAX, Inc. | Laundry increases 2000 Powers Ferry Road, #200 / Marietta, GA. 30067 | exponentially in the INTERNET: arnold@audiofax.com Phone: +1 404 933 7600 | number of children. UUCP: emory!audfax!arnold Fax-box: +1 404 618 4581 | -- Miriam Robbins