Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:994 comp.unix.xenix:2645 comp.windows.x:4189 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!belltec!dar From: dar@belltec.UUCP (Dimitri Rotow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X-windows under System V/386 Summary: Low Cost X Window for Low Cost Hardware Keywords: ega, vga, System V, cheap, embedded base Message-ID: <240@belltec.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 88 16:18:48 GMT References: <524@pcrat.UUCP> Organization: Bell Technologies, Fremont, CA Lines: 29 In article <524@pcrat.UUCP>, rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes: > OK, so where's the beef? > I'm sitting here, in wonder, at how the X11R2 tape could completely > ignore support for the biggest potential base of X-windows users: > 80386 boxes, System V/386, with EGAs or VGAs. > > Gosh, can I be the only one who thinks that $2xx UNIX ought to > have a $50 X-windows available for it? Is it coming? What? > you want ME to do it? Aren't we supposed to be working on > applications by now? > Release 3.1 for standard System V/386 (Intel, AT&T, ISC, Bell Tech, etc) includes X (v 10.4) support for Hercules Monographic clones as well as a variety of standard hi-res displays. All of the 3.2 / X11 stuff supports VGA as well, so you'll be able to run Open Look as you see fit on nice cheap cards as well as the razzle-dazzle stuff. The current release of our X Window product also supports Hercules monographic clones in the OEM version ... we've never released this as a binary distribution because we felt 3.1 was right around the corner. Our plans are to sell X for about $145 as a binary software add-on with prices coming down as volume builds (we'd go a lot cheaper, but X is a very large system and the cost of preparing 12 to 15 diskettes and many hundreds of pages of documentation becomes a significant fraction of the cost). Would anybody be interested in a "license only"/"media kit" split pricing on X to bring the X license below $50? - Dimitri Rotow, Bell Technologies