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- From: roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- Subject: Re: Running X on PC?
- Message-ID: <C0MnHA.G79@quadsys.com>
- Organization: QUAD Systems
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- References: <1993Jan5.202735.15008@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:29:34 GMT
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- wkwong@kalman.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) writes:
- : Hi there,
- :
- : We are on a LAN running Novell netware 3.11. We are connected to the
- : outside world (campus ethernet) through a bridge from this. The SUN
- : (down the hall from me) is connected to the campus ethernet and has a
- : known address (My 386 has an ethernet address as well). We can logon
- : the SUN and run terminal sessions but what we want is to run an X-
- : windows session complete with graphics etc. So it seems what we're
- : looking for is software that will emulate an X-windows terminal.
- :
- : Can anyone give me some suggestion?
- : Any comments would be welcome, thanks,
- :
-
- I would recommend not to waste you time and money with one of the X
- implementations for the PC. Get yourself a copy of DESQVIEW/X - it turns
- you PC into a useful machine. Not only will you have an X desktop
- (with a choice of OpenLook or MOtif window managers) you can also run
- multiple DOS sessions in fixed or scalable windows, you can run Windows
- as well. Naturally, being a full X server, you can log onto the SUN
- and run any X application. Not only that, you get real hardware based
- multi-tasking and, as icing on the cake, a SUN user can open a local
- window running a DOS application on the remote PC!
-
- My wife has used DESQVIEW/X for about 6 months with great success on
- a 33MHz 386 networked to my SUN and DECStation. With an universal programmer
- attached to the PC, I can program PAL/PROMS directly from the SUN by
- running a remote DOS session.
-
- The only drawback is that you need LOTS of memory - 8MB minimum, 16MB
- is better.
-
- --
-
- Roland Besserer
- QUAD Systems
- roland@quadsys.com
-