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From: stevewi@hpspdra.HP.COM (Steve Witten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: X-11 over serial?
Message-ID: <21460001@hpspdra.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 90 23:07:33 GMT
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> Is it possible to get an X-Windows emulator for the Mac Plus running
> over a 19200 serial line to a Sparcstation? Memory for the Mac shouldn't
> be a problem. It seems a tall order but I might as well ask. If it's PD
> or Shareware, so much the better.
> 
> Keith
> 
> -- 
> #>  Keith Brady, Maths Dept, TCD, Dublin.                           <#
> #>  krady@maths.tcd.ie          -   Ireland's oldest PDP-11         <#
> #>  kjbrady@vax1.tcd.ie         -   Bigger brother                  <#
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The specifications for a the X Window System state that the only
restriction on client/server communications is that it be over a
"reliable byte-stream" transport.  However, most commercial suppliers
of X interpret the term "reliable byte stream" to mean TCP.  While it
is technically feasible (I worked on a project that used Kermit as the
transport between a UNIX client and a server running on an IBM PC),
you probably won't be able to buy such a beast -- you'll probably have
to roll your own...

I'm still waiting for the same thing as you.  BTW, the client library
and the server have to both be coded to use serial communications.
You could always try SLIP too (but then you'd probably have to
implement TCP on SLIP on your Mac).

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