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From: terry@eecea.eece.ksu.edu (Terry Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: x-window on dos or os/2
Message-ID: <665@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 89 14:03:13 GMT
References: <25024@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <903@ks.UUCP> <6327@pdn.paradyne.com>
Reply-To: terry@eecea.UUCP (Terry Hull)
Organization: Kansas State University, Manhattan
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In article <6327@pdn.paradyne.com> dixon@gumby.paradyne.com (0000-Tom Dixon) writes:
>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.
>
>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!
>

That is true, if you were running both the client programs and the
server on the DOS machine.  I am certain the IBM product is only a X
server and does not provide the capability of running clients on the
DOS machine.  You have to connect the DOS box up to a UNIX host
running X before the product will be usable.  You are correct that X
provides quite a burden for DOS.  Most X servers that run under DOS
will not support a large number of windows, even with the clients
running on the UNIX box.  





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Terry Hull 
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