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From: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: What is MacX?
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Date: 6 Dec 90 16:16:55 GMT
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In article <1990Dec5.191437.11335@portia.Stanford.EDU> 
calvin@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dukhyung Chang) writes:
>         The other day I saw a computer with a program called MacX. I
> thought that MacX was the X windows server that you ran if you were 
fortunate
> enough to be running AUX on a fast machine. Was I wrong? Can you you
> run it seperately, and then use your Mac as an X terminal?

MacX runs under both A/UX and MacOS. So, yes, you can use your Mac as an X 
terminal (provided you have enough memory, etc.). Keep in mind that people 
writing X clients often assume that everyone using X has a 19" monitor - 
the windows they design are often bigger than even than the typical 
640x480 Mac monitor. (Note that MacX allows you to create a virtual screen 
larger than 640x480, but scrolling it around is not convenient.)

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