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From: treese@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Win Treese)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: window standards & standard windows
Message-ID: <126@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 17:21:20 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-tril.126
Posted: Thu Mar 20 17:21:20 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 04:09:26 EST
References: <1664@decwrl.DEC.COM> <246@ulowell.UUCP>
Reply-To: treese@athena.UUCP (Win Treese)
Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: Info. about the X window system

In article <1664@decwrl.DEC.COM> praetorius@vaxwrk.DEC writes:
>     Does anybody out there (from MIT, especially) know anything about a
>windowing package called X that's come out of Project Athena?

The X window system is available from MIT Project Athena for a nominal
$100 processing fee.  To get a copy, send electronic mail to
"xrequest@athena.MIT.EDU", or US Snail to

	X Requests
	MIT Project Athena
	1 Amherst St.
	Cambridge, MA 02139

It comes with full source.  It is also available from DEC with Ultrix for
the Vs100, VAXstation2, and GPX workstation.  There is also support for SUN
workstations and will soon be support for the IBM PC/RT.

The X window system itself is not really suitable for the Amiga.  Client
programs use TCP connections to talk to a display server that handles the
display.  What might be interesting, however, is an X library interface to
the Amiga's window system.

By the way, X is being discussed as a possible window system standard.

	Win Treese
	System Release Engineer
	MIT Project Athena

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