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- From: tkevans@fallst (Tim Evans)
- Subject: Re: Running X on PC?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.180813.4072@fallst>
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- Organization: Tim Evans
- References: <1993Jan5.202735.15008@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> <C0MnHA.G79@quadsys.com>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:08:13 GMT
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- roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:
-
- >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!
-
- NOTE: There's a TCP/IP add-on you must purchase to run on top of DVX
- to accomplish all this. It's about $150 (MSRP), I think. *AND* you
- must have a TCP/IP transport stack, such as PC/TCP or Lan Workplace
- for DOS running as well. And a network card, of course.
-
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