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Re: Running X on PC?

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From: Tim Evans
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:08
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roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:

>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!

NOTE:  There's a TCP/IP add-on you must purchase to run on top of DVX
to accomplish all this.  It's about $150 (MSRP), I think.  *AND* you
must have a TCP/IP transport stack, such as PC/TCP or Lan Workplace
for DOS running as well.  And a network card, of course.

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Subject: Re: Running X on PC?
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