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From: gary@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help: definitions and terminology
Message-ID: <5669@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 14:36:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 30 14:36:28 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 04:45:46 EDT
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Reply-To: gary@eddie.MIT.EDU (Gary Samad)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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In article <9561@decwrl.DEC.COM> jmsynge@sqm.dec.com (James M Synge, DTN 381-1545) writes:
-In article <2393@bacall.UUCP> papa@bacall.UUCP (Marco Papa) writes:
-
->While it is true that X REQUIRES Berkeley style UNIX...
-
-WRONG!  The X Window System is designed with a client-server model, where
-the communication takes place with TCP in the initial implementation.  The
-client and server can be running totally different OSs.  Thus your client
-on a 4.3 machine could be displaying on an Amiga which had an implementation
-of the server side and an ethernet board.  I've talked with some guys at MIT
-who are attempting to do just that.
-
-James Synge
-

In fact, it doesn't require Unix at all.  You can currently use VMS as a
server and even an AT as a client.  And X doesn't require Ethernet, although
it probably wouldn't be much fun using a 1200 baud serial line. ;-)

	Gary