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- From: zlsiimw@info.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: X server for PC running PC/NFS
- Message-ID: <7389@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:10:55 GMT
- References: <146944@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
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- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
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- In article <146944@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, johnson@akula.llnl.gov ( Robert
- Johnson ) writes:
- |> We are Sun workstation users who have recently started using a
- |> PC for a specific project. The PC is a 486DX50 and we plan on
- |> using a 3COM Etherlink III card running PC/NFS 4.0. The Sun
- |> server will be a SPARCstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.2. We would
- |> also like to have an X server for the PC preferably running under
- |> MS Windows 3.1. We would like to have MS Windows applications
- |> running along side X sessions. We would therefore greatly
- |> appreciate any email with pro/con recommendations for X servers
- |> for the PC, especially from people experienced with a setup similar
- |> to ours.
-
- Hummingbird eXceed/W will do this; I can recommend it but don't have
- any experience of similar products to make comparisons. They also do
- a non-MS Windows version (i.e. standalone under DOS) which I would also
- recommend.
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- Mark Whidby, Distributed Systems, Manchester Computing Centre
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