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From: yurkon@CYCVAX.NSCL.MSU.EDU
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Subject: Re: X-Windows for Amy (was Handshake sucks??)
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Date: 11 Apr 91 02:56:12 GMT
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In article <20521@cbmvax.commodore.com>, martin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Martin Hunt) writes...

>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,
>>...
>>Yo,
>>--Tom Sarver
> 
> 
>X for AmigaDOS is by GfxBase.  This is a completely different product
>...
>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

Syndesis does support serial lines.  Also GfxBase has SLIP, at least in beta,
it might be released already.

	John