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From: viking@silver.UUCP
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Subject: Re: X-windows for the Mac? (question)
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 01:42:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 01:42:00 1987
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Yes...X-windows is running on a Mac II, but only under A/UX.  Both Ohio
State University and Berkeley have completed a port (I believe).  I don't
think you'll ever see an X-windows 'terminal program' running under the
normal Mac HFS software, however.

By the way, A/UX is nice but I'm not sure how much the final product will
cost (you need the Motorola MMU and you should have lots of disk space and 
at least 4 megs of main memory).  Don't expect it to be cheap.


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