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From: abm@alan.aux.apple.com (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Announcing MacX 1.1 and X Window System 2.1
Keywords: MacX X11 A/UX 2.0
Message-ID: <11737@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 16 Jan 91 04:20:41 GMT
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In article <25559@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>, cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson [Animal]) writes:
|> abm@alan.aux.apple.com (Alan Mimms) writes:
|> 
|> [...]
|> >MacX runs on the Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE, Macintosh Classic,
|> >Macintosh LC, and all of the computers in the Macintosh II series.  MacX
|> [....]
|> >The MacTCP connection tool supports pretty much any Macintosh Ethernet
|> >adapter (Apple's EtherTalk board, for example) or any AppleTalk transport
|> >(e.g., twisted-pair LocalTalk) to communicate with a DDP<->IP gateway
|> >(e.g., Kinetics KIP).
|> 
|> HmmMMmmm..  So, answer me this, if you can.  Picture this hypothetical
|> (at the moment) situation: A Mac plus, connected via AppleTalk to a
|> Mac fx running a/ux 2.0.  The Mac fx is running the cap/uab package,
|> allowing it to be an Appletalk<->IP gateway.  Can the Mac Plus be
|> running MacX, accessing clients on the other side of the fx?
|> 
|> In other words, an AppleTalked Mac Plus X-Windows Display through an fx?
|> 

I don't know much about the cap/uab stuff, but if it will work with MacTCP
as a DDP/IP gateway, then sure, it will work.  I won't expect anyone to
rave about the performance due to the several process context switch
operations per X11 packet, but it probably would be workable.  You could
also use a (cheap) DDP/IP gateway like a GatorBox or a Kinetics (or
whatever they're called now) FastPath.

|> --Chan
|> Chan Wilson                                  Chief Hard-Question Answer Person
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A/UX X group                                  | pretty worthless, but
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