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From: Pieter Dubois
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:00

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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.

I hope *I* didn't get confused ;-)

-- 
Pieter Dubois

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From: Pieter Dubois <duboisp@NOSPAM.ibm.net>
Subject: X or how terminology sucks.
Date: 1997/03/29
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