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- From: berry@athos.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: MS-DOS X-windows? Where?
- Message-ID: <BERRY.92Nov4115418@athos.pei.com>
- Date: 4 Nov 92 16:54:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.004836.28192@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Sender: usenet@pei.com (Net News)
- Reply-To: berry@pei.com
- Organization: Protocol Engines, Inc., Mt. View, California
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- In-Reply-To: jharvey@csulx.weber.edu's message of 4 Nov 92 00:48:36 GMT
- Nntp-Posting-Host: athos.pei.com
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- >>>>> On 4 Nov 92 00:48:36 GMT, jharvey@csulx.weber.edu (Just me) said:
- Justin> I noticed that you can get X-windows for Macintosh, Unix, VMS
- Justin> and also MS-DOS, but all the packages I have found for DOS are
- Justin> commercial. Are there any public domain X systems?? And if so,
- Justin> where can I find them?
-
-
- As far as I know there aren't any public domain OR freely
- distributable (they aren't the same...) X Servers that run under
- MS-DOS.
-
- However, since I have written one commercial version and it's been
- more than a year since I, um, severed connections with that company,
- I've been contemplating doing a freely distributable version based on
- (most likely) the MIT R5 sample server, the djgcc DOS version of GCC
- and ka9q/pcip/packet driver software, all freely available.
-
- I'm not promising anything, but I'm kind of interested in the level of
- interest out there, and what features are MUST HAVES, such as hot-key
- to DOS, local clients, WINDOWS support (yecch) and so on.
-
- If anyone interested sends me a brief note I will tabulate the results
- in some way and post a summary of "what people really want" from a
- MS-DOS X Server.
-
- Who knows, I may even do it!
-
- --berry
-
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- Berry Kercheval :: berry@pei.com :: Protocol Engines, Inc. Mt. View, CA
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