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- Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!dxcern!hagen
- From: hagen@dxcern.cern.ch (Per Hagen)
- Subject: Re: X Server for MS-Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.230822.9591@dxcern.cern.ch>
- Keywords: X, Windows, server
- Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics
- References: <17AUG199216461607@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1992Aug18.143519.20577@esleng.ocunix.on.ca> <6539@fury.BOEING.COM>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:08:22 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <6539@fury.BOEING.COM> julien@sdc.boeing.com (William Julien) writes:
- >Xvision acts as an X11R4 server to clients running on a remote host
-
- XVision 4.1 doc mentions R5 as well!
-
- >(although VisionWare has a communications support program called "PC
- >Connect" which will work across modem)
-
- XVision 4.1 has NCD Xremote (modem) as an option to be bought separately.
- I have not yet tried it.
-
- >Xvision does provide for "panning", but although it is fast
- >enough, I found it distracting.
-
- Yes, but very useful for a PC with VGA only.
-
- >Xvision supports directly the networking software by FTP called
- >PC/TCP. The Virtual X driver (VxD) by FTP software works fast, but it
- >does require windows to be running in enhanced mode.
-
- Yes and no. XVision also supports older versions of PC/TCP without the
- Windows driver. You will have to load a TSR instead.
-
- >memory) Windows 3.1 is highly recomented.
-
- The combination XVision 4.1 and Windows 3.1 impressed me (happens once or
- twice a year typically). It runs 30% faster on my crappy PC, and a lot
- faster on a 486/33Mhz with some memory (8 MB).
-
- >version 2.10 (i think) which is rumored to reduce 3c500 memory impacts by
- >85%.
-
- Get yourself a better Ethernet card as well. 3C500!
-
- Per HAGEN
-