Between two Sun workstations: decoding the X11 wire protocol

What an xterm actually does on the wire during startup, captured between two Sun workstations and decoded byte-by-byte the morning of the capture, by Swift code that didn't exist the night before. The first piece of a Mac-native X server.

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Trust Me, You Want SunOS 4.1.4 on Your Older Sun Boxes

How SVR4 STREAMS imposes per-packet overhead the IPX's BSD-based SunOS 4 stack doesn't pay - and why it shows up as interactive feel

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DOS Networking with mTCP

Getting vintage DOS machines online using packet drivers and Mike Brutman's mTCP TCP/IP stack

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Getting SunOS 4.1.4 Working

Notes on installing and configuring SunOS 4.1.4 on real hardware, including networking, DNS, X11, and GCC

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SunOS 4.1 Using DNS without NIS

How to modify the shared C library on SunOS 4.1.x to use DNS resolution without NIS

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