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{{About|the display server|other uses|Macx (disambiguation){{!}}Macx}}
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'''MacX''' is an obsolete [[display server]] implementation supporting the [[X11]] display server protocol, that ran on [[System 7 (Macintosh)|System 7]], [[Mac OS 8]], and [[Mac OS 9]].  It also ran under [[A/UX]]. Prior to [[X11R4]] and the introduction of the [[PowerPC]]-based [[Power Macintosh]], this server was developed internally by [[Apple Inc.]] for the [[Motorola 68000|Motorola-68000]]-based Macintoshes. MacX was initially developed within the Networking and Communications organization as one component of the Apple DEC Alliance suite of products, but later was moved to Apple's [[A/UX]] group since [[X11]] was (and is) an important part of UNIX user interfaces. Versions supporting X11R4 and X11R5 were developed for Apple by a small team of engineers at AGE Logic, Inc., a [[San Diego, California]] company. AGE also OEMed the MacX software under the trade name XoftWare for Macintosh. Apple provided early versions of the Power Macintosh to AGE Logic, and the result was a binary that supported both the Power Macintosh as well as earlier, 68000-based systems.
AGE Logic was later acquired by a Silicon Valley company named [[NetManage]] in the mid-1990s. NetManage was headquartered directly across the street from Apple in [[Cupertino, California]]. XoftWare for Macintosh was merged into NetManage's product offering for the Macintosh, which included a wide variety of standalone [[Internet]] desktop applications (e.g., [[telnet]], [[archie search engine]], [[Gopher (protocol)|gopher protocol]], [[FTP]]), along with various software titles, mainly [[terminal emulator]]s that were acquired by AGE Logic when it purchased Pacer Software earlier in the decade.<ref>{{ citation | title = June 26, 1996 - New Software From NetManage Provides MacX Users Power Mac Speed | url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18428854.html | accessdate = 2009-10-11 | publisher = PRNewswire }}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
By 1998, Apple had discontinued MacX as it transitioned from the [[classic Mac OS]] to the [[Unix]]-like [[Mac OS X]], which had ample support for X11 (earlier versions of Mac OS X did not directly support X11, but as of [[Mac OS X v10.3]], [[X11.app]] has been made available directly from Apple). NetManage disbanded its Macintosh group earlier, around 1996, and as a result, discontinued support of XoftWare for Macintosh.
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