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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>
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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