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- From: hllrob10@uctvax.uct.ac.za
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: MSWindows and X-Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.182010.203319@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:20:10 GMT
- Article-I.D.: uctvax.1992Nov23.182010.203319
- References: <Bxx3o7.896@utdallas.edu>
- Organization: University of Cape Town
- Lines: 30
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- In article <Bxx3o7.896@utdallas.edu>, paschall@utdallas.edu (Dwayne Paschall) writes:
- > We have just bought a local bus 50 MHZ i486DX computer that we are using as graphics
- > and computational modeling workstation in our lab. In the next room, we have an array
- > of SUN workstations which run Open Windows. Our question is what software is avaliable
- > for running some of our X-Windows applications (Like Framemaker and Matlab v.4.0) as a
- > windowed application on the 486-50 PC? We already have an ethernet card, but it is used
- > mainly for file transfers and remote telnet logons (we don't use Netware for example).
- >
- > I think I remeber seeing ads from a company (Spectrographics?) that made a product
- > called PC-Xview. Is this correct or an hallucination? Does anyone know of ANY product that
- > will let us run our X-Windows apps under MS Windows as a Windows app?
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- Have a look in November issue of BYTE. I remember seeing three ads, one was
- PC-Xview I think. Sorry I don't have it on me right now.
-
- Oliver
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- Oliver Hill
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cape Town
- South Africa
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