[COFF] X Windows use in Nutek Mac clone

Robert Brockway robert at timetraveller.org
Mon Jun 1 16:01:15 AEST 2020


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


More information about the COFF mailing list