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In <salnick.03fv@dejavu.spk.wa.us> salnick@dejavu.spk.wa.us (There is no substitute for displacement...) writes:

>In article <1992Nov12.113848@liris.tew.kuleuven.ac.be> wimvh@liris.tew.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Van Holder) writes:
>>I know this question has come up earlier, but I missed the discussion
>>at the time. So, can someone mail me a summary of the "which PC X-server"
>>topic. Currently, I'm considering PC X-view and HCL-eXceed as possible
>>candidates.

>You should probably add dwdos (DECWindowsDOS - a component fo PathWorks, 
>DEC's network integration environment for PC's), eXcursions (also from 
>DEC - runs as a rootless server under MSWindows, and DesqviewX - the real 
>gem of all of these.  DesqviewX is the only piece of code that I know of 
>that can simultaneously accept inbound requests for windows services AND 
>coerce local DOS applcations into being x clients for local or remote 
>display (yes, this means that you can run your favorite PC package with 
>the display on your Sun...)

We have studied these a little.. and have bought none of them yet..
They all lack something, or have something annoying.

XVision is about the best of the lot, but it has an annoying
license number system, we are not going to play with tens or
hudreds of different numbers.

HCL-Exceed is another good product, but the version we had lacked
MIT Magic cookie support.

DEC products.. I haven't seen recent version, Digital Review did not
like it at all.. Previous version lacked XDM, MIT cookie, X11Rn
standard fonts, worked only on pathworks TCP/IP stack which
was huge and did not use bootp..

DesqviewX.. is an OLD version of GSS PCXview + DV + all the nice
added features.. but at least our version was slow... 
and very ugly code: it patched PC/TCP on the fly..
and its installation program messed the hard disk..

PCXview: the recent version is from GSS. NCD is not going to use it,
they give a long upgrade guarantee because it is only a bait to sell 
their real version, which is a port of their X terminal software to 
x86 hardware. The beta should be out december, the product next spring. 

I think this is going to be THE product. Unfortunately the bait has
some bugs.. at least our version had problems with colormaps and
non-USA keyboard..

There was something we have also tried, but the name escapes.. the
product did not do very well anyway.

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