VNC for MacOS X Server?

[Joseph Delaney]

>While OS X Server is a Unix-a-like OS (which should make a port 
>reasonably easy)
>it uses display Postscript rather than X windows (which makes a port more
>difficult).
>
>Anyway, it is my impression that X Server is a stop gap OS that will be wound
>up when the "real" Mac OS X turns up (currently in DR2).  So it's probably
>better to wait until then before attempting a port.

Furthermore, Mac OS X (consumer version) will *not* use Display 
Postscript (since Adobe does not support it anymore), so anything 
written for MOSX Server now would likely need to be rewritten for the 
new graphics system (Apple has been discouraging a port of X windows 
for this very reason).

What we really need is VNC to be ported to what Apple calls "Carbon." 
Then it will run on both MOSX and the "classic" Mac OS 9.

Joseph Delaney
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