Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!bu-cs!polygen!bill 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 Lines: 46 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 :-)