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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: X server for MS-Windows?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.183339.438@twg.com>
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:35:25 GMT
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- Looking outside the narrow valley which is MS-Windows for a second ...
-
- The article & brochure on DesqView/X in the August BlYTE made it
- sound really interesting.
-
- There is an X server in there. An Xt compatible toolkit which allows
- for local X applications. Any DesqView/X application can display itself
- on any X display, even ones which are currently active. They set up
- something so that MS-Windows displays into an X window, allowing for it
- to be directed to any X display. Of course any X application can display
- on a DesqView/X screen. &c
-
- Their window manager looked pretty silly. Fortunately you can get an mwm
- or olwm on DesqView, but it is warned that your hair will fall out if
- you do so.
-
- Anybody know anything more? So far it sounds good enough that this wizened
- DOS hater was recently heard to say:
-
- "This almost makes me interested in buying a DOS system to
- run it on.."
-
- And here I'd been ignoring their booths at trade shows ...
-
- <- David Herron <david@twg.com>, Just: Another E-Mail hacker ...
- <-
- <- As for the prevalence of gratuitous stupidity in modern life, well,
- <- need I say more than "MS-DOS"? -- Bill Janssen
-