Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:1016 comp.unix.xenix:2678 comp.windows.x:4246 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ksr!joy!fdr From: fdr@joy.ksr.com (Franklin Reynolds) 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: <371@ksr.UUCP> Date: 14 Jul 88 19:43:24 GMT References: <524@pcrat.UUCP> <191@cbw1.UUCP> Sender: nobody@ksr.UUCP Reply-To: fdr@ksr.UUCP (Franklin Reynolds) Organization: Kendall Square Research, Cambridge MA Lines: 28 In article <191@cbw1.UUCP> brian@cbw1.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie) writes: >In article <524@pcrat.UUCP> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: >>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. >... I have used window systems on Suns, Apollos, IBM PCs and Macs. It is true that window systems are especially valuable on large screens but they are also useful on systems with small screens. Ultimately, the value on running X on your V/386 box will be access to X based applications. Wordprocessors, spreadsheets, bitmap editors and drawing programs that target X and UNIX should showing up by the end of this year or the beginning of the next. These programs should be fairly portable and the V/386 market would be much more appealing if X were a little more available. Franklin Reynolds Kendall Square Research Corporation fdr@ksr.uucp Building 300 / Hampshire Street ksr!fdr@harvard.harvard.edu One Kendall Square harvard!ksr!fdr Cambridge, Ma 02139