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From: tuna@athena.mit.edu (Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need of Demos and X
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Date: 25 Sep 89 15:48:59 GMT
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In article <10017@xanth.cs.odu.edu> wayne@cs.odu.edu writes:
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% OK, I have a tall order. I am in search of a couple of demo/utility
% programs for a Geology teacher. A simple or complex graphic demo of
% Plate Tectonics/sea floor spreading. Next a program which may be
% used for correlation of rock stacks. (The technical name escapes me
% at the moment) Also, this is for me, does anyone know if X windows
% exsist for a PC?

In article <12043@boulder.Colorado.EDU> gordon@boulder.Colorado.EDU replys:
%
% X-windows does run but on 386 class machines under Unix. Some
% versions of Unix will allow MS-DOS applications to run as well.

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".) i don't remember any specific details on these packages
at the moment, but i'm pretty sure one of them was even from IBM.

if anybody's interested in more info, drop me e-mail or followup and
i'll try and track down the details.

kirk