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From: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  NeXT as an X client?
Message-ID: <9101210602.AA10296@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 91 06:02:17 GMT
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> We would like to use one of the new NeXT machines (68040) as a
> Mathematica server, where students could login and run said program
> from remote terminals.  In particular, we would like to have them
> able to log in from X-terminals, and use the graphics capabilities.
> The people at NeXT do not think we can do this, we can just log in
> from ascii terminals... yet I am told that there is a complete X11R3
> for the NeXT, which would seem to indicate that we could do that.

> Am I asking for the impossible?  All I need is for the NeXT to be
> able to recognize a remote display.

The NeXT can run X clients very nicely.  There is no problem with that;
ports of R3 and R4 exist.

However, the NeXT native applications do not use X and are incapable of
displaying on an X-only machine like an X terminal.

The NeXT can display NeXT native applications remotely, provided the
remote machine knows how to speak NextStep.  I think.  But in any case,
I don't know the details.

					der Mouse

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