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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need of Demos and X
Message-ID: <553@fred.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 89 13:41:56 GMT
References: <10017@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <12043@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <14625@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: bill@fred.UUCP (Bill Poitras)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <14625@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tuna@athena.mit.edu (Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson) writes:
>
>actually, there are X windows packages that allow you to use MSDOS
>machines as X clients. (that is, you need some other machine to
			   ^^^^^^^
>actually run the X application, but you can use your MSDOS box as a
>"terminal".) 
>
>kirk

The proper term for the PC "terminal" is the server, and the host machine
is the client.  Although that is backwards when compared to a 
file server/client model, that is the correct terminology.  I have seen
several X servers for the PC myself, and can give a little info.

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS FROM MEMORY AND IS NOT TO BE TREATED AS A PRODUCT
REVIEW, OR FACTS ETCHED IN STONE.  IF I MAKE A GROSS ERROR CORRECT ME FOR 
THE PURPOSE OF GETTING THE FACTS STRAIGHT.

Locus Computing - has a product called PC X-Sight.  Its current version
is 2.0 and costs $495(!!!!!-).  It can use up to 16Mb of total system 
memory, and supports the Excelan 205 cards, 3Com cards (including the 
Micro Channel version), and some WD ethernet card.  I believe it is 
X11R3 compatible, but don't hold me to that ;-)  The graphics boards it 
supports is many, but all the non-standard (non-VGA/EGA) boards are monochrome.
  The highest resolution is 1240x400 (pretty good!)The number for Locus
is (617)229-4980 (Massachusetts).  Over all it looks like a nice product.  
AOh, I just remembered, it uses TCP/IP protocol for communications.

Graphic Software Systems - has a product called PC-XView.  Unlike the Locus
server, it doesn't support extended memory, or X11R3 fonts.  But they do have
plans for a release very soon with both of those features.  It supports the 
Excelan 205, and I believe any board that FTP Software's PCTCP package does
(ie A LOT of boards).  It does support DGIS graphics cards.  These cards 
are very fast (special graphics hardware built in), and can do resolution
of 1024x768x256.  Once the new version (extended memory usage and X11R3 
compatibility) comes out, this also will be a great product (now its just 
a good one :-)  The number for GSS is (503)641-2200 (Thats in Oregon). This
product also uses TCP/IP protocol.

Digital - PC-Decwindows.  Doesn't support extended memory, but it soon (Jan '90)
will, runs with DEC's own PC ethernet card.  The protocol is DECNET.  That's
all I know.

Any questions, well you have the number for of the company's, don't call me
:-)