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- From: ede978e@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert D. Nicholson)
- Subject: Re: WhichX?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.053718.24992@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
- References: <1992Aug20.144448.15125@dvorak.amd.com> <171pv0INNfda@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:37:18 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- sandell@chowning.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Sandell) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug20.144448.15125@dvorak.amd.com> mbehrens@barqs.amd.com
- >(Mikael Behrens) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug19.203442.21031@tandem.com>
- >> chopper@gumbytsg.tandem.com (Michael Chop) writes:
- >> | Hello fellow netters,
- >> |
- >> | I will be plopping down some money on a X-package. Could some
- >> X-package users post some reviews, reccomendations, or
- >> experience with them.
- >> |
- >> | I understand that the three major packages are co-Xist,
- >> eXodus, and cub-X.
-
- >I don't see mention of X-mouse, which I use. X-mouse comes from McGill
- >University, and that's all I know about it. Couldn't tell ya where to ftp
- >to. I believe it's public domain.
-
- >When you start up this X, NeXTstep vanishes and a standard-looking X
- >appearance takes over the screen. This X does everything I've needed it
- >to do and I've run into few problems. Some of the things I do are: run S
- >(a statistics/graphics package) on a sparc but use the NeXT as the
- >display; run Motif/X programs from a Silicon Graphics machine with the
- >NeXT as display.
-
- >You can suspend your X session and return to NeXTstep and then back again
- >with special keystrokes.
-
- >There is a strange interaction with the Mail program, though. If you
- >return to X with the NeXT mail program still running, X will. This only
- >happens intermittently, though.
- >--
- >Greg Sandell
- >Research Fellow, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
- >sandell@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu
-
- Regardless whats out there in PD for X I would go commercial.
-
- For this reason, X on the NeXT is supported by volunteers who don't
- gain commerically. Now given NS3.0 is about to be released you can
- be sure that the commerial vendors have made sure that their products
- are compatible with future OS releases.
-
- Just my thoughts on this matter.
-