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From: kes3200@sjfc.UUCP (Ken Staggers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Starting an X-Windows Environment using Berkeley UNIX
Keywords: Is it possible?  Whats needed?
Message-ID: <663@sjfc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 00:44:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
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Hello-

  A simple question from a novice user.  Is there x-windows software
available for 4.3 BSD UNIX running on a VAX 11/785?  When I say software, 
I mean the whole starter package.  I got a glimpse of x-windows this summer
as the sysops were installing in on system V at work.  My college is asking
us for advice on improvements to the system, so I am investingating this
possibility.

  So who provides the software and for how much?  What kind of terminals 
are needed and how much do they run (non-color ones)?

  Are there public domain equivalents to the x-windows software available?

Thanks for your help....please e-mail your replies!

--Ken Staggers
  St John Fisher College
  (...!rutgers!rochester!cci632!sjfc!kes3200)