Article:		From Exile to X11: A Journey Through Time
Subject:		MacOS 9 Had X Servers
Date:		2003-03-14 19:59:45
From:		anonymous2
Um, I don't understand the point of this article. The mac has had X servers for years from white pine, tenon, etc that ran on OS 9.

Showing messages 1 through 1 of 1.

• MacOS 9 Had X Servers
  2003-03-15 06:09:50  bbum [Reply | View]
  
  
  But OS 9 did not have any of the features of a modern Unix server and, hence, the X environment on OS 9 was crippled. While the X servers on OS 9 could do a wonderful job of displaying remote X sessions, they could not easily take direct advantage of many of the X based applications; you couldn't run many of hte X based apps directly on the OS 9 platform without there having been a difficult porting effort.
  
  End result; the OS 9 based X platform lagged behind the rest of the X community. This is not true of the OS X X environment.