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From: Dion_L_Johnson@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: x-window on dos or os/2
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Date: 1 Jul 89 00:54:06 GMT
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Tom Dixon wrote:
-In article <903@ks.UUCP> griefer@ibmarc.UUCP (Allan D. Griefer) writes:
->IBM offers IBM X-Windows for IBM DOS, program number 5709-029.  I hope this
->helps.
->Allan D. Griefer,       IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA
-This sounds like a huge nightmare.  What are the system requirements for
-the DOS Machine?  
-I was under the impression that X was very large and precessor intensive for
-your average unix machine.  I would think it would drop a 20 Mhz Model 80 to 
-its knees!
-Tom Dixon
-uunet!pdn!dixon

I've been playing with SCO's implementation of X on the 386 (the
"Open Desktop" product) and it seems to perform OK.  If you're a real
speeder, you will be interested in the X-server-on-a-coprocessor-board
implementations which are planned by some of the graphics board
companies.  Of course, the 386 is not a wimp CPU, but
even so, I have to conclude that the X architecture is reasonably
efficient.

Dion L Johnson