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Someone recently posted a request for information concerning X on an
IBM PC.

We have PS2 Model 70 and 80's.  They are 386 proceccor based.  X can
be run on these in two ways.

1) IBM has a product called X Windows For DOS.  Basically, a few drivers
are loaded, and you execute "xondos".  A telnet session is started
to a machine on the ethernet that runs software called "pci..."; typically
IBM machines, in our case IBM RT's running AIX.  An aixterm is started
and you log out and the PC becomes an X terminal (no access to the local
disk though).  *******  Unfortunately, our systems will hang after a
non-deterministic amount of time?? I have posted this problem several times
but have not received any help with a solution.


2) Get AIX for the PS/2.  And make sure you have a 90mb hard drive or
bigger (we have 60mb and they are maxed out with just the system software).
An X windows package comes with this (actually, it came from the 
consortium).  ***** Unfortunately, we understood that our configuration of
60mb hd and 2mb memory was a minimum requirement for running AIX and X.
It is, if you don't mind waiting 5 minutes for each redraw et.al.
--paging constantly.

I recommend at least 4-6 mb of RAM for option 2 with a 90mb hd.  Option
1 is fast enough but it doesn't work???


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| Peter C. Bahrs                                                         |
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