Announcing MacX 1.1 and X Window System 2.1
Alan Mimms
abm at alan.aux.apple.com
Wed Jan 16 15:20:41 AEST 1991
In article <25559 at fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>, cwilson at NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson [Animal]) writes:
|> abm at alan.aux.apple.com (Alan Mimms) writes:
|>
|> [...]
|> >MacX runs on the Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE, Macintosh Classic,
|> >Macintosh LC, and all of the computers in the Macintosh II series. MacX
|> [....]
|> >The MacTCP connection tool supports pretty much any Macintosh Ethernet
|> >adapter (Apple's EtherTalk board, for example) or any AppleTalk transport
|> >(e.g., twisted-pair LocalTalk) to communicate with a DDP<->IP gateway
|> >(e.g., Kinetics KIP).
|>
|> HmmMMmmm.. So, answer me this, if you can. Picture this hypothetical
|> (at the moment) situation: A Mac plus, connected via AppleTalk to a
|> Mac fx running a/ux 2.0. The Mac fx is running the cap/uab package,
|> allowing it to be an Appletalk<->IP gateway. Can the Mac Plus be
|> running MacX, accessing clients on the other side of the fx?
|>
|> In other words, an AppleTalked Mac Plus X-Windows Display through an fx?
|>
I don't know much about the cap/uab stuff, but if it will work with MacTCP
as a DDP/IP gateway, then sure, it will work. I won't expect anyone to
rave about the performance due to the several process context switch
operations per X11 packet, but it probably would be workable. You could
also use a (cheap) DDP/IP gateway like a GatorBox or a Kinetics (or
whatever they're called now) FastPath.
|> --Chan
|> Chan Wilson Chief Hard-Question Answer Person
|> SRI Intl. Network Information Systems Center
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--
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A/UX X group | pretty worthless, but
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