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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: X-Windows on PC's
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Date: 14 Jul 90 21:49:31 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.221121.3619@cs.utk.edu> <6718@ozdaltx.UUCP> <6721@ozdaltx.UUCP>
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> In article <1990Jul12.221219.1621@agate.berkeley.edu>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
> > The only snag
> > is who is going to buy it.  Does it make any sense to put something as
> > complicated as X server and clients running under extended DOS, when
> > the same machine could run UNIX?
> 

	At the Quarterdeck booth at PC/Expo, the demo machine had 3
generic X windows, and Lotus 1-2-3 in a Desqview window. That is a reason
for buying it: X + everything you already have.



-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 5.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                   "Viruses do to cells what Groucho did to Freedonia."