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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: X for the Mac?
Message-ID: <5278@well.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 16:56:11 GMT
References: <2811@sfsup.UUCP>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, shap@sfsup.UUCP (J.S.Shapiro) wrote:
}In article <296@algol.spp2.UUCP>, urban@spp2.UUCP writes:
}> Do I correctly understand that there is not, at present, an X11 server for
}> the Macintosh (generic)?  But that X11 will exist in some form under
}> A/UX on the Mac II only? 
}
}Yes, but this may have something to do wqith the fact that X.11 can't
}be considered stable yet. X 11.1 was very difficult to port, and
}the thing is still a sufficiently fast moving target that any
}company considering an X implementation for the WOMBAT-3000
}would do well to hold off until the X world slows down a bit.

Difficult to port?  I ported the alpha release of X11 to the Mac II
running A/UX in about a month, and most of that time was spent fighting
bugs.  The released version I ported in only two weeks.

Anyway, the original poster's understanding is correct, except that
as far as I know there has been no confirmation that the X to be
distributed with A/UX is X11.  For all we know it could be X10.

Wasn't A/UX released last week?  Let's hear some facts from someone
who knows, eh?
---
Jef

              Jef Poskanzer   jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa   ...well!pokey
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