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From: acuff@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Richard Acuff)
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Subject: Re: microExplorer and X windows (was: VT100 Lines, etc.)
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Date: 27 Mar 91 18:05:03 GMT
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> on a related issue: does anyone have experience in using both the
> microExplorer AND MacX (Apple's X11 server implementation) at the same time
> ?  Or is this something that cannot work for principled reasons ?

MacTCP (which is used by MacX) and the mX can't share an interface because
both do a complete IP implementation which involves grabing all the IP
packets from the interface.  When MacTCP came out (quite a while after the
mX) TI made an effort to convert to using it but ran into difficulties, the
most significant of which, as I understand it, was that MacTCP didn't allow
access to non-IP ARP packets so TI couldn't get ChaosNet to work.

We work around the problem by running MacTCP through the LocalTalk interface
and the mX through the EtherTalk interface, which allows them to run
simultaneously.  However, LocalTalk is a bit slow for X.

	-- Rich