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From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell)
Subject: Re: MacX TCP tool?
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.114301.2052@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging
References: <Added.wap34eq00UkTEJxk9D@andrew.cmu.edu> <197@pacvax.UUCP> <4074@lib.tmc.edu>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 90 11:43:01 GMT

In article <4074@lib.tmc.edu> an12280@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
>In article <197@pacvax.UUCP> matt@pacvax.UUCP (Matt Kingman) writes:
>> MacX includes (is supposed to include) a MacTCP connection tool.
>
>If MacX ever ships. I've been asking about it for almost a year now, and I 
>never get definite answers about shipping date or where I can buy it. I've 
>been using an alpha version (which I *didn't* get from Apple for several months now and like it better than eXodus, but...
>
>I recently heard a rumor going around NASA that Apple has decided to offer 
>MacX because they must, but do not plan to support it. Instead, they will 
>suggest that people run A/UX. I don't want to use up 150 MB of disk space 
>just to run X windows on my Mac. MacX, with its font files, takes up less 
>than 2 MB of disk and doesn't require another operating system which is 
>incompatible with many of my programs and INITs.
>
>
>
>David Gutierrez
>an12280@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu
>
>"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
>
>
>And DON'T tell me that DEC will include MacX as part of LANworks. I don't want to put 800 Macs on DECnet and our local DEC office doesn't want to hear from us unless we're ordering a new Vax or an upgrade for an existing one. Besides, no one there knows any thing about them McIntoshes.






      Not only is MacX shipping(I have a release copy on my desk), the
support from Apple for the product has been great. I also had an alpha
copy (through LEGAL means), and the additions made to the final copy
are substantial in both features and speed. I'm not using it with DEC 
stuff; it works just fine over TCP/IP with out own MacBLITZ Unix nubus
card for the mac.


     I would highly recommend MacX over eXodus; it is faster, cheaper
and has more features.....









			Mike Bell





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