Computer Old Farts Forum
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: robert at timetraveller.org (Robert Brockway)
Subject: [COFF] X Windows use in Nutek Mac clone
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 16:01:15 +1000 (AEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2006011557550.23241@mira.opentrend.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACNPpeZX2X0vNqn9eqGb7FRbV-fvg_Q3WifBgXZharsOefmP7Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Wesley Parish wrote:

> It was a Macintosh clone that reverse-engineered the Mac interface and
> appearance, using the X Window System as the GUI library - what in
> Macs of that era was locked into the Mac system BIOS.

I hadn't heard of this before.  I wonder if it used the mlvwm (Mac-like 
Virtual Window Manager).  Around 1995 a friend of mine installed Linux on 
a Sun box and ran the mlvwm just to confuse people.  Our Unix user group 
did a few demos and we'd bring it along.

https://opensource.com/article/19/12/linux-mlvwm-desktop

Rob


      reply	other threads:[~2020-06-01  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-01  1:16 wobblygong
2020-06-01  6:01 ` robert [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=alpine.DEB.2.21.2006011557550.23241@mira.opentrend.net \
    --to=coff@minnie.tuhs.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).