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From: peters@Apple.COM (Steve Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: X11R3 on Mac?
Summary: X11R3 for A/UX is Apple product
Message-ID: <26226@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 89 20:20:59 GMT
References: <3600038@iuvax>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <3600038@iuvax> gannon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>Has anybody seen any of the X11 servers that have been
>rumored to have been ported to the Mac?  Do they work
>with multiple monitors?  Do they run under Multifinder?
>under AUX?  Are they really available or is it all
>"real soon now".
>
Apple will ship its X11R3 product for A/UX in March (1989). The
server will support 1-bit and 8-bit deep frame buffers, multiple
screens, backing store and save unders. The graphics code has
undergone substantial optimization. X11R3 will run on both A/UX 1.0
and A/UX 1.1, however A/UX 1.0 allows just a single monochrome screen.

Apple has contributed sources for a single screen, monochrome server
to the MIT X Consortium. These appear on the X11R3 distribution which
has been publicly available since October. comp.windows.x regularly announces
ftp (and other) sites where this distribution may be obtained.

Steve Peters
A/UX X Project Leader
Apple Computer, Inc.