From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10408 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2002 21:41:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10398 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2002 21:41:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.luukku.com) (193.209.83.38) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 18 Dec 2002 21:41:33 -0000 Received: from MT586KR (c1ea.yhteys.mtv3.fi [62.236.234.193]) by mail2.luukku.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA22B1BA3A9; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:40:32 +0200 (EET) From: "Kai Ruottu" Organization: MTV3 Internet To: insight@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:41:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Windows GUI to GDB on Mac OS X Reply-To: kai.ruottu@luukku.com Cc: congers@mindspring.com Message-ID: <3E01084C.21693.B8CE55@localhost> Priority: normal References: <3DFF78BB.50606@redhat.com> In-reply-to: <8CD659EC-11F4-11D7-89CB-00039379E320@apple.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-SW-Source: 2002-q4/txt/msg00222.txt.bz2 Jim Ingham wrote: > On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 11:19 AM, Fernando Nasser wrote: > > If I understood right, she wants to do just the opposite. her local > > machine is a Windows machine and the remote one is the Mac one. > > That is why I suggested running gdbserver on the Mac OS X (should > > build with no problem, I believe). Then she can use GDB (thus > > Insight) from her Windows machine, connecting to the gdbserver target. Maybe I have dropped from the wagon, but using X apps from Windoze or from any other system which has the needed 'X11 Server' installed, should still be possible. In 1990 or 1991 one of my customers purchased a 30 'MIPS' DECstation (with MIPS CPU) and two Tektronix X- terminals connected to it via the LAN. The nondisk-terminals had the X11-servers and three persons could use the same CAD-program at the same time... It was sane because the DECstation costed about $15.000 and the X11-terminals maybe $1000 apiece... And in 1997 I personally installed some commercial (but a limited- time trial-version was downloadable from the net) into 10 or so Windoze-PCs (with Win95's) and then students in that classroom could use some electronics design program running on a SunStation... Since then I haven't needed to toy with these things... If the MacOS X system has X11, has a X11-based Insight and Susan gets some X11-server for Windoze, what is the problem now ? As I understand this, only the screen, keyboard and mouse have been 'moved' via the lan into the Windoze-station but the Insight itself runs on MacOS X and shouldn't care about where the screen, keyboard and mouse are... If the 30 MIPS DECstation was powerful enough for three engineers to use it at the same time in 1991, how the current 1000+ MIPS Unix- stations are not sane to be 'shared' via the 100/1000 Megabit/s 'Fast Ethernets' ? Ok, these are cheaper now, but still using apps running on different systems via the lan can be perfectly sane... I would be quite sure that this was the original idea for X, not the graphical UI (as it is in Windoze)... Cheers, Kai