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- From: vhalkka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Vesa Halkka)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
- Subject: Re: PC X-servers: PC X-View or HCL-eXceed ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.225733.11385@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:57:33 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.113848@liris.tew.kuleuven.ac.be> <salnick.03fv@dejavu.spk.wa.us>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 53
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- In <salnick.03fv@dejavu.spk.wa.us> salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (There is no substitute for displacement...) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov12.113848@liris.tew.kuleuven.ac.be> wimvh@liris.tew.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Van Holder) writes:
- >>I know this question has come up earlier, but I missed the discussion
- >>at the time. So, can someone mail me a summary of the "which PC X-server"
- >>topic. Currently, I'm considering PC X-view and HCL-eXceed as possible
- >>candidates.
-
- >You should probably add dwdos (DECWindowsDOS - a component fo PathWorks,
- >DEC's network integration environment for PC's), eXcursions (also from
- >DEC - runs as a rootless server under MSWindows, and DesqviewX - the real
- >gem of all of these. DesqviewX is the only piece of code that I know of
- >that can simultaneously accept inbound requests for windows services AND
- >coerce local DOS applcations into being x clients for local or remote
- >display (yes, this means that you can run your favorite PC package with
- >the display on your Sun...)
-
- We have studied these a little.. and have bought none of them yet..
- They all lack something, or have something annoying.
-
- XVision is about the best of the lot, but it has an annoying
- license number system, we are not going to play with tens or
- hudreds of different numbers.
-
- HCL-Exceed is another good product, but the version we had lacked
- MIT Magic cookie support.
-
- DEC products.. I haven't seen recent version, Digital Review did not
- like it at all.. Previous version lacked XDM, MIT cookie, X11Rn
- standard fonts, worked only on pathworks TCP/IP stack which
- was huge and did not use bootp..
-
- DesqviewX.. is an OLD version of GSS PCXview + DV + all the nice
- added features.. but at least our version was slow...
- and very ugly code: it patched PC/TCP on the fly..
- and its installation program messed the hard disk..
-
- PCXview: the recent version is from GSS. NCD is not going to use it,
- they give a long upgrade guarantee because it is only a bait to sell
- their real version, which is a port of their X terminal software to
- x86 hardware. The beta should be out december, the product next spring.
-
- I think this is going to be THE product. Unfortunately the bait has
- some bugs.. at least our version had problems with colormaps and
- non-USA keyboard..
-
- There was something we have also tried, but the name escapes.. the
- product did not do very well anyway.
-
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- Vesa Halkka -O___/
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