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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Andrew Toolkit
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Date: 3 Jan 91 19:54:45 GMT
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>One of our X hackers experimented with the Andrew Toolkit
>and reported that it actually tried to 'connect' with the
>machine that the server was running on.

Well, what does "connect" mean?

>	Is this actually TRUE ??!!

Not in whatever sense she's thinking.

>	With all of the X terminals with no
>		compute ability, how in the
>		world do the makers of the
>		Andrew Toolkit expect their
>		product to survive?

I've definitely seen the ATK stuff run against
an NCD from a Sun.  You need to put the fonts in place, though, unless
you want things to look distinctly strange.

The ITC likely cares little about X terminals, since their focus from the
beginning has been on large-scale, integrated environments, using
workstations.

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