Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dptg!pegasus!dmt From: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: Need of Demos and X Message-ID: <4122@pegasus.ATT.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 11:06:20 GMT References: <10017@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <12043@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ Lines: 26 In article <12043@boulder.Colorado.EDU> gordon@boulder.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R) writes: >In article <10017@xanth.cs.odu.edu> wayne@cs.odu.edu () writes: >> >>... does anyone know if X windows exsist for a PC? >> >X-windows does run but on 386 class machines under Unix. Some versions of Unix >will allow MS-DOS applications to run as well. Too restrictive. There are a few companies (names escape me at the moment, but I think Locus is among them) that have an X-Windows SERVER that runs under MSDOS. However, they may need a 286 and/or expanded memory to give reasonable performance. And, of course, the client program is assumed to run on a separate (UNIX system) machine. Gordon may be right, if you're asking about being able to write X-Windows programs that run completely under MSDOS (that is, both the client and the display server on the PC). However, I saw a blurb a couple of months ago for a PC-based X-Windows. The blurb wasn't very detailed technically; I got the impression that it was a subset of the full X library, and that it didn't support the protocol (just a local implementation of the display, not a client/server architecture). Sorry about the lack of company names. I haven't given anybody enough here to solve their problem, just perhaps some motivation not to stop looking. Dave Tutelman