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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: A mac as an X-terminal?
Message-ID: <1989@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 90 17:34:20 GMT
References: <1937@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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In article <1937@skye.ed.ac.uk> ruth@aiai.UUCP (Ruth Aylett) writes:
>The idea would be to run one of the Mac X windows packages (eXodus or MacX)

The current release of eXodus appears to be robust and fully functional, but
monochrome only and literally so slow as to be unusable, this on a Mac II
with ethernet/MacTCP.  I've seen faster X response over a 9600 baud SLIP line.
Their next release is promised in April and is said to be much faster.
However, if you buy their product now, you'll have to pay an upgrade fee,
which is completely unreasonable.  What they're shipping now is nothing but
a technology demonstration.  By no stretch of the imagination can it be
called a "product".

I'm keeping my eye out for MacX, which isn't released yet.  You may want
to look at White Pine's eXodus again once their new release ships, but
I'd only order it on evaluation to make sure their promises of improved
performance are true.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu