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From: jww@sdcsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: X windows for Mac?
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Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 11:20:46 EST
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In article <315@elxsi.UUCP>, rw@beatnix.UUCP (Russell Williams) writes:
>    But is anyone porting X-Windows to run under the Mac O/S?  

X windows requires the ability to make a local socket connection.
The AppleTalk design inexplicably excludes this concept.

It also requires multi-tasking.  You can fake a background server
with a series of clever hacks (as did Mac/IP) but this is a lot of 
work and probably not worth the effort.
-- 
	Joel West
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