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Article #13456Re: X windows server under MS Windows?
From: Bob Palowoda
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 05:43
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 05:43
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From article <5417@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, by dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (D.J. Murdoch - Statistics):
> The January issue of Byte talks about X Windows, the windowing system from MIT.
> I've used it on Unix, and thought that was the only place it ran, but apparently
> it's supposed to be a general purpose windowing system, and servers for it can
> be written on any machine with a good enough screen.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a server written to run under Microsoft Windows?
> It seems a natural feature for any terminal emulator to support.
Actually I think you have it backwards, run Microsoft Windows under
X-windows. And it's already being done. ATT's Unix 3.2 with there X-windows
and Simul-task allows this to run on 386 ATT and clone machines. On EGA.
Looks good too. Locus has it running under dos. Running X-windows from a
dos machine to a dos machine would be difficult to implement the
client/server model because dos is a single tasking/single user OS.
I would consider Microsoft windows to be a window manager. Thus it
would be Microsofts responsibilty to get it running under X-windows.
---Bob
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!megatest!palowoda From: palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: X windows server under MS Windows? Message-ID: <1209@megatest.UUCP> Date: 18 Jan 89 05:43:01 GMT References: <5417@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca Lines: 26