Re: X or how terminology sucks.

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From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:00

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Also sprach duboisp@NOSPAM.ibm.net (<333D1325.6E47@NOSPAM.ibm.net>):
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| crobato@kuentos.guam.net wrote:
| > 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
+--->8

You have it right:  the service in question is called a "display", and is
composed of one or more "screens" and multiple input devices.  X11 clients
"contract" with a server for access to a display.

BTW, there is a client package available for PM-X.  What there *isn't* is
a way to run PM programs as X11 clients.

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From: bsa@kf8nh.apk.net.if.you.dare (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Subject: Re: X or how terminology sucks.
Date: 1997/03/30
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