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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
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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