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From: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: X-Windows for Amy (was Handshake sucks??)
Message-ID: <20521@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 16:39:34 GMT
References: <50211@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Reply-To: martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <50211@nigel.ee.udel.edu> andersen!tsarver@uunet.uu.net (Tom Sarver) writes:
>Yes, there is an X-windows available for Amy.  It's by Ameristar, I believe,
>and it also comes bundled with A3000/UX and the AT&T System V Rel. 4 Unix.
>I don't know if it works over a modem because it is intended for the Ethernet
>adaptor.  But you should be able to do some digging.
>
>Yo,
>--Tom Sarver


X for AmigaDOS is by GfxBase.  This is a completely different product
than the X bundled with SVR4.  X works over network protocols, such
as DECnet or TCP/IP.  If these protocols can be run over modems, serial
lines, etc. then you can run X on top of them.

GfxBase's X uses Commodore's TCP/IP or Syndesis DECnet.  I believe that
the Syndesis DECnet can be used over serial lines.  The current C=
TCP/IP does not work over serial lines.

Martin