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From: ephraim@think.COM (ephraim vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: X11 support on a Mac??
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Date: 22 Apr 88 13:17:41 GMT
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In article <23690@bbn.COM> dkovar@bbn.com (David C. Kovar) writes:
>In article <6326@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> eto@spacely.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Edward Olsen) writes:
>>We have decided to go with X-Windows 11 for our graphics, and I
>>would like to know if there is any software for the Macintosh which
>>will support this graphical interface.

>According to the latest issue of Macintosh Today a company named
>White Plains in Amherst Mass. will have X11 running on the Mac
>sometime in the fall.  Unfortunately I left my copy of Mac Today at
>home and cannot give you the full details on it.

The company is White *Pine* Software Inc., in Amherst, *New
Hampshire*.  (White Plains is in New York.  There is an Amherst, MA,
but there's one in New Hampshire, too.)

  White Pine already has some terminal emulation and other
communications software for the Mac.  Their X11 product runs native on
the Mac (i.e., it's not an A/UX program) and is supposed to support
Multifinder.  "Company president Samuel Solon ... does not expect
volume sales until late 1988 or early 1989."


Ephraim Vishniac					  ephraim@think.com
Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214

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