Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:978 comp.unix.xenix:2643 comp.windows.x:4176 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!umd5!umbc3!cbw1!brian From: brian@cbw1.UUCP (Brian Cuthie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X-windows under System V/386 Keywords: ega, vga, System V, cheap, embedded base Message-ID: <191@cbw1.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 88 15:18:48 GMT References: <524@pcrat.UUCP> Reply-To: brian@cbw1.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie) Organization: CBW, Columbia, MD 21046 Lines: 30 In article <524@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: >DOS under UNIX (at least on 80386) is a reality. >I've been reading about X-windows, Open Look, etc. every week now. >They've got me half convinced that a signficant part of the PC >world may indeed switch to UNIX instead of OS/2. > >OK, so where's the beef? > >I mean, there are all these 80386 machines out here, with extended >EGAs or VGAs and color monitors. Yet, the only X-windows I've seen >advertised requires new display hardware, and half again the cost >of an 80386 system. How's that going to move the world? Maybe >a few developers -- but what about my father-in-law??? ... Well, I think the reason you don't see a lot of X use on any of the standard PC hardware is size. Have you ever tried using several windows on screen that, for the most part, only supports 25 columns of 80 character text ? Yes, I know that graphics can make the chars smaller and then you can get more of them on the screen. But, when you really look at what makes a sun workstation a sun workstation, you'll see that a lot of it is the fact that you can have several LARGE (read: useful) windows open at once. I personally have never liked *any* windowing package on the PC because the windows are just too small. -brian -- Brian D. Cuthie uunet!umbc3!cbw1!brian Columbia, MD brian@umbc3.umd.edu "Captain, Captain! All the stars have gone out!" "No, you fool, you've leaned on the button. Turn the viewer back on!"