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- From: tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts)
- Subject: Re: Just general help, please...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.165925.26369@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Keywords: X, Xwindows, 386, 486, unix, slip
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:59:25 GMT
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- You have a number of options. I don't know much about DOS hosted X servers,
- but I know of:
-
- 1) Vista eXceed, which is an (expensive) X server which runs X as a window
- under MS Windows.
-
- 2) Desqview /X which will simultaneously display Desqview, Windows, DOS and X
- applications on your PC. Very nice, but will also cost you money.
-
- I don't know whether these support SLIP. Certainly eXceed requires that you
- also have TCP/IP in some form. (Yet more money, if running from DOS)
-
- 3) Download a free Un*x clone such as Linux or 386BSD, and run X on that. This
- gives you all you need for nothing! If diskspace is at a premium, use Linux (I
- do, so I'm biased :-) ). You will get a complete Linux + X setup comfortably
- into a 60Mb partition, with plenty of room to spare. 386BSD requires more than
- this (I may be wrong, no flame wars please), and also requires more memory. I
- have a configuration very similar to yours and X runs under Linux like a dream!
-
- Tim.
-