Re: X or how terminology sucks.

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From: Will Rose
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:00

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Pieter Dubois (duboisp@NOSPAM.ibm.net) wrote:
: crobato@kuentos.guam.net wrote:

: > >
: > >X itself is freely available from the XFree86 ports, or (more likely)
: > >IBM could roll its own X Servers.
: > >
: > 
: > IBM has X Windows on OS/2 if you bought the full TCP/IP v2.0 or v3.0
: > package.  I am not sure if it includes a server though.


: Ladies and Gentlemen,
: We just entered 'confusion zone'.
: In the world of X, the concept of client/server is often feeled as
: upside-down to the common definition of C/S.
: In X terminology, the server is the computer which offers the display,
: the client is the computer which runs the application which output is
: send to the screen (on the other computer).  That means that PMX (the X
: implementation for OS/2) is the X-server.  The U*ix box which runs the
: application, whether it is an X-term or a full-fledged graphical
: application is the X-client.

AFAIK IBM has dropped both the X-server and -client for OS/2.

Will
cwr@crash.cts.com

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From: cwr@cts.com (Will Rose)
Subject: Re: X or how terminology sucks.
Date: 1997/03/30
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