[Info-vax] OSes

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-17 19:14, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2016 16:33:57 -0500
> Bob Koehler via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <mailman.1.1452850533.15674.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
>> lists at openmailbox.org writes:
>>>
>>> I got the impression this (DECwindows using X forwarding from VMS to a
>>> Linux X server) is not possible on SIMH. Has anybody gotten it to work?
>>
>>     Not specifically that combination, but ever other combination of
>>     X11 on Linux with other systems, and X11 on VMS, including from simh,
>> has worked for me, no matter which one I wanted as the server and which
>>     one I wanted as the client.
>
> What are you running from SIMH that you X forward, if not VAX/VMS?

Are you aware that X is a protocol over TCP. There is no need to 
"forward" it. And what people are talking about here is actually to 
*not* forward it, but let the X clients talk directly with the X server, 
without any forwarding agent in between...?

	Johnny

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