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From: jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X on a PC
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Date: 4 May 90 11:27:12 GMT
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From article <72298@aerospace.AERO.ORG>, by foonberg@aerospace.aero.org (Alan Foonberg):
> 
> Someone here at our shop wants to know if there is a "subset" of X11 that can
> be run on his PC.  He wants to be able to run the PC in a stand-alone mode, not
> networked to any other machines, not acting as an X Terminal on some other
> host.  He wants the environment to be self-contained.  In other words, he wants
> to be able to call Xlib routines and see results on his PC.
> 


There have been several requests for this (including mine, for a friend).  There
are several server only implementations available commercially.  Certainly, one
of the suppliers could find a way to solve the rest of the problem -- the market
appears to be growing.









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