MacX or X Window System?
Alan Mimms
abm at alan.aux.apple.com
Tue Feb 12 05:06:38 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb4.230846.1421 at aucs.AcadiaU.ca>, ifocs9d at aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Rick Giles) writes:
|> I'm upgrading A/UX and X Window System 11R3 on a Mac II and am faced with
|> getting MacX or the X Window System 11R4.
|> What are the advantages/disadvantages of one of these servers running under
|> A/UX? Thanks.
|>
|>
|> Rick Giles
|>
|> Bitnet: FRGILES at Acadia.ca
Oops. I realized after hitting "send" that I had failed to answer your
question very completely. Sorry for the additional bandwidth...
MacX is an X11R4 server which lives in the "Macintosh world" on A/UX or
Macintosh OS (one binary fits all). It provides a facility for starting
clients (and other processes) on remote (or local if running A/UX) machines
and a built-in window manager which is optional. It provides a high
degree of integration between your Macintosh applications and the X11
clients -- for example, cut and paste of text and color graphics in
both directions.
The X Window System for A/UX contains MacX and another server (which is
mutually exclusive with MacX) which takes over your entire screen(s).
While this server's performance is somewhat (say, 20%) better than MacX's
performance, it is mutually exclusive with the Macintosh world -- you
can't run ANY Macintosh applications while running the "Native X" server.
The X Window System for A/UX also contains a set of clients and the
full development environment from MIT (libraries and interface files),
built to take advantage of A/UX's shared library capability.
If you have any questions, please ask.
--
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A/UX X group | pretty worthless, but
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