Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!spdcc!merk!xylogics!cloud9!bu-cs!madd From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: How to choose a new 386 UNIX PC... Message-ID: <38841@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 25 Sep 89 20:50:24 GMT References: <645@visdc.UUCP> <16097@vail.ICO.ISC.COM> <648@visdc.UUCP> <4635@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <649@visdc.UUCP> Reply-To: madd@cs.bu.edu (Jim Frost) Followup-To: comp.unix.i386 Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group Lines: 15 In article <649@visdc.UUCP> jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes: |In article <4635@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM |(Steve Dyer) writes: |> IBM sells "X Windows for DOS" and Locus sells what I believe to be the |> same product, PC/Xsight. ... I believe you are limited to what you |> can do in 640K, but I could be wrong. Doesn't matter. The product is too slow to use unless you have a 386 or very fast 286. The demo that IBM had at Usenix ran so slow that I couldn't handle it (and I've used the Sun 386i 8 bit-plane for heavy-duty X). Not recommended. jim frost software tool & die madd@std.com