[139] in Zephyr Mailing List
Re: Zephyr port for DOS and/or MacOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucien Van Elsen)
Wed Oct 26 16:27:01 1994
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 94 16:24:45 -0400
From: Lucien Van Elsen <lucien@watson.ibm.com>
To: mcb@mach.eng.hou.compaq.com
Cc: zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <m0r0EHJ-0002PsC@mach.eng.hou.compaq.com> (mcb@mach.eng.hou.compaq.com)
Reply-To: lucien@watson.ibm.com
>>>>> Mike Busby writes:
>In-Reply-To: <9204271716.AA18913@fionavar.MIT.EDU>; from "lwvanels%Athena.MIT.EDU@twisto.eng.hou.compaq.com" at Apr 27, 92 01:16:36 pm
>> A port of Zephyr to MacOS is in early testing; the binary and
>> documentation for it are available via anonymous ftp from
>> net-dist.mit.edu in the directory /pub/alpha-beta-mac/maczephyr". A
>> version for MSDOS is planned, but no work has been done yet. There is
>> also a mailing list for information about the Macintosh Zephyr client,
>> "maczephyr@athena.mit.edu".
>>
>> -Lucien
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Lucien Van Elsen | lwvanels@athena.mit.edu MIT Athena Systems Development
>> |
>>
> This was back in April. Has any work been done on a DOS/Windows version?
> We are considering a project to do this for support internally but don't
> want to re-invent the wheel.
April '92.. the Athena system devlopment group was disbanded that September,
and I came to Watson. I havn't heard anything about a MSDOS port since.
You may want to ask on the "zephyr@mit.edu" mailing list to see if someone
anywhere else has looked into this-
-Lucien
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