Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!dewey.soe.berkeley.edu!oster From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: X on the Macintosh Message-ID: <19879@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 17:04:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.19879 Posted: Mon Jul 27 17:04:34 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 06:49:35 EDT References: <1831@vax135.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) Organization: School of Education, UC-Berkeley Lines: 32 Xref: mnetor comp.windows.x:1168 comp.sys.mac:5003 In article <1831@vax135.UUCP> ths@vax135.UUCP (Thomas Speeter) writes: >whether there is an adaptation of X that can run as an application on >the Mac. The macintosh is multi-tasking enough that you could implement light-weight processes to run the server (most Macintosh Forth systems provide light-weight processes for example.) You could even implement time slicing through the Macintosh's Vertical Blanking Task Manager. You could even arrange the Mac implementation of the X client library so that if it discovered it was running under Switcher it could run as a Switcher background task, so that you could run multiple X clients in Switcher background, with the X server managing the Macintosh screen. (and possibly other clients talking to that same X over the serial ports.) It would be difficult to override the graphics system calls of arbitrary Macintosh applications to let them use the X server though. All of the above would be a lot of work though. Now, I know the next part will sound like a flame but it really isn't: What X applications would you like to run on a macintosh? i.e, in what application areas is there a tool that runs under X that is better than an <$100 tool for the Macintosh? What makes it better for you? Do you use a group of applications that work together as smoothly as the Macs'? I only use X because Sun has a decent lisp (I use lucid) that can talk to X, and there is no equivalent lisp for the Macintosh. please E-mail me your answers, and, if there is any interest, I will repost. --- David Phillip Oster --My Good News: "I'm a perfectionist." Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --My Bad News: "I don't charge by the hour." Uucp: {seismo,decvax,...}!ucbvax!oster%dewey.soe.berkeley.edu