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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: ILA's X11 on Symbolics
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Date: 4 Apr 89 11:12:45 GMT
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    From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Bob Scheifler)
    Date: Tue, 21 Mar 89 07:25:22 EST

        Has anyone tried out the X server for Symbolics' from ILA?
        I played around with an early version at my Symbolics rep's
        and was disappointed. It seemed pretty buggy.

    Yes, I bought it and have tried it, and I would probably have been less
    charitable than you.  It's pretty hard to believe they call it a product.
    E.g. causing an xterm to scroll by typing carriage return will crash the
    server.

I've received patches from ILA that improves the server considerably.  Although
the server is still slow, it now appears to be quite usable for it's intended
purpose (which is to debug X clients).  The clients that we tried now seem to
work correctly.  I'm told that Symbolics should be releasing these patches in
the (hopefully near) future.