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From: bchen@nntp-server.caltech.edu.UUCP (Bing-Qing Chen)
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to the Window System from Planet X
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> Finally, that brings us to NeXTstep.  It is a good environment, except
> that it doesn't run over the network.  It would be great if I could
> run Mathematica on one workstation and have another workstation display
> the output.  (Why would I want to do this?  Suppose somebody else in
> the building has a NeXT with 32 MB RAM, while mine has only 8 MB.  I
> don't want to work in his office, but I'd like to run M on his machine.)
> I do this all the time with Mathematica on our HP workstations which use
> X.

Sure you can do this. Just turn on your local NeXT's public window server
flag and run the application from remote NeXT with a flag -NXHost 
<hostname>.

- Bing Chen
bchen@pooh.caltech.edu