[tech] [clare@cyllene.uwa.edu.au: MacX - purchase about to occur.]

[Leighton Haynes]

On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 06:55:18PM +0800, Ian McKellar wrote:
> I think it might be worth UCC buying MacOS X server - it looks cheap.

You mean MacX server, which appears to be an X11 Server, rather than
MacOS X Server, Apples latest Operating System offering.

Leighton...

> ----- Forwarded message from Clare Johnstone <clare at cyllene.uwa.edu.au> -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 17:29:30 +0800 (WST)
> From: Clare Johnstone <clare at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
> Reply-To: Clare Johnstone <clare at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
> To: Dirk Slawinski <slawinsk at cwr.uwa.edu.au>
> cc: MacX <aad at arts.uwa.edu.au>, cmurphy at cyllene.uwa.edu.au,
>         ivey at cwr.uwa.edu.au, oldham at cwr.uwa.edu.au, pawel at mech.uwa.edu.au,
>         peterj at ee.uwa.edu.au, technical-contacts at uwa.edu.au,
>         winter at cwr.uwa.edu.au
> Subject: MacX   -  purchase about to occur.
> 
> MacX....
> # Mac is running MacX as an X display server and the application is
> # running on, e.g. , a remote Sun with the Display variable set to the
> # Mac's IP address (DISPLAY=130.95.208.220:0.0). Ie Sun is the client and
> # the MacX is the server.
> 
> Anyone interested in purchase of MacX now  - the price being 
> probably $67 for licence with shared media, but may be
> $73 with shared media and manual.
> We need to buy a minimum of 15 licences,
> and hope to purchaes in about a week,
> so please email your T-form number if you want to be included.
> 
> thank you
> clare
> 
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> Clare Johnstone, University Computing Services, 
> The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 6907
> Tel +61 8 9380 2607, Fax +61 8 9380 1109, Internet clare at ucs.uwa.edu.au
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> 
> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Dirk Slawinski wrote:
> >  By the by any more news on MacX?
> > With 10(11?) licenses I asked for plus at least one more from another CWR
> > Prof you must have reached your 15 by now.  If not please let me know how
> > many more nodes you need and I'll see if I can scare up a few more. 
> > 
> > 
> >        TTFN  Dirk  =:>             "The Fur is out there": [Fox Mulder]
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Leighton...

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