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From: Grunwald@Weimar.Berkeley.EDU (Grunwald Betr. Tichy)
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Subject: Re: a poll
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Date: 16 Jan 90 10:54:35 GMT
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I would like a grafical interface too, but the access should be a bit standardtised.
In Germany there is the MGR for the ST and Eltec VME-Bus machines, a fine, fast product, which does not consume to much memory.
(The documentation is english, price 550.- DM)
There are at least two implementations of X11.R3, which run only on some bigger VME-Bus machines with TCP/IP and at least 2 M Memory.
There are implementations of GEM for some other machines with an ACRTC graficcontroller.
There is also RAVE and some other not so well known window systems, including one system, which has an window filemanager, which has some opportunities over a UNIX-like approach with PTY's or TCP/IP connections.

If you want grafics, you can get it, but you will have no grafic system, which is shared by most OSK users, because one system is not very widespread, the other is very expensive (TCP/IP) and an other uses special hardware.

Since MGR is public domain, fast and leaves you some memory for other tasks it is my choice, but other guys may think of the X-software.