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wkwong@kalman.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) writes:
: Hi there,
: 
: We are on a LAN running Novell netware 3.11.  We are connected to the
: outside world (campus ethernet) through a bridge from this. The SUN
: (down the hall from me) is connected to the campus ethernet and has a
: known address (My 386 has an ethernet address as well).  We can logon
: the SUN and run terminal sessions but what we want is to run an X-
: windows session complete with graphics etc.  So it seems what we're
: looking for is software that will emulate an X-windows terminal.
: 
: Can anyone give me some suggestion?
: Any comments would be welcome, thanks,
: 

I would recommend not to waste you time and money with one of the X
implementations for the PC. Get yourself a copy of DESQVIEW/X - it turns
you PC into a useful machine. Not only will you have an X desktop 
(with a choice of OpenLook or MOtif window managers) you can also run
multiple DOS sessions in fixed or scalable windows, you can run Windows
as well. Naturally, being a full X server, you can log onto the SUN
and run any X application. Not only that, you get real hardware based
multi-tasking and, as icing on the cake, a SUN user can open a local
window running a DOS application on the remote PC!

My wife has used DESQVIEW/X for about 6 months with great success on
a 33MHz 386 networked to my SUN and DECStation. With an universal programmer
attached to the PC, I can program PAL/PROMS directly from the SUN by
running a remote DOS session.

The only drawback is that you need LOTS of memory - 8MB minimum, 16MB
is better.

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Roland Besserer
QUAD Systems
roland@quadsys.com