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From: gmd@sirius.UUCP (George MacDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Wherest out thart X and thy unix for my fair amiga
Keywords: unix Xwindows amiga trailblazer vt100 2.4
Message-ID: <340@sirius.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 88 23:17:06 GMT
Organization: Northern Telecom, NSSD, Concord, NH.
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A while back Amiga World mentioned a company that was planning to sell
X windows for the amiga. Does anybody know if this is for real and who
to contact for more info.

It seems feasible to run X over a high speed serial port such as the one
supported by the amiga, although one would need something like SLIP to
interface with a host. Does anyone have a version of SLIP for the amiga?

Also I was wondering when commodore was going to release unix for the
amiga. Now that the 2500 is out(nearly out?) it seems the only thing 
stopping this is the software. Does anyone know if commodore is going to
sell this bundled with an amiga at a better price or is it going to be
a separate software package? I am on the verge of upgrading my trusty(dusty)
1000 and want to know if I should wait a little bit longer for a 2500AX to
appear?

Oh, Ive been using a trailblazer plus with my amiga for two weeks now and 
not had any major problems. I have been running it at 9600 baud over a local
phone line to a Sun 3/280 at work(reading news, up/downloading). This
combination works pretty nicely, althogh there is one small problem.
When I am about to get a bunch of characters from the Sun I get a get
a small hesitation and then a bunch of characters get blurted out at 
full speed. I am using vt100 2.4, does anyone know if this program keeps 
up at 9600?
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George MacDonald	@ Northern Telecom	..!dartvax!sirius!gmd