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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: X-Windows on PC's
Message-ID: <1292@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 90 02:51:51 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.221121.3619@cs.utk.edu> <6718@ozdaltx.UUCP> <1990Jul12.221219.1621@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Jul12.221219.1621@agate.berkeley.edu> ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:

|                             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?

  This will come as a shock, but there are a lot of us who want to run
X, not UNIX. I have a Cray and a Convex to run UNIX, I would like to
avoid spending $4k for a color X terminal and get some use out of the
ATs we have left over when people got bigger machines.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me