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From: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson)
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Subject: Re: X windows on PCs - Who has the best ??
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Date: 1 Oct 90 15:04 GMT
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From: sasjcm@segovia.unx.sas.com (James McNealy)

>I have been looking into this for our QA dept. I saw a demo of a product
>here at the institute called HCL-eXceed Plus, from Hummingbird
>Communications ltd. It was used with FTP's PC/TCP product. HCL-eXceed requires:
>     o   An IBM AT or 386 based PC
>     o   640K RAM below 1 Mb.
>     o   minimum 1 Mb RAM above 1 Mb.
>     o   EGA or VGA
>     o   Microsoft mouse
>     o   hard disk (no size spec.)
>     o   network card that handles tcp/ip
>   
>We found that the system above worked well with most of the X systems at
>the institute. I'm not sure of the cost for a site license, I will be
>investigating this issue soon. 
>Hummingbird is in Ontario Canada and can be reached at (416)470-1207.

   When I called that number I got a modem carrier.   Is it a real
   company or is it "two guys in their basement"?   

   Actually, I don't really care.  I'm looking for a (hopefully)
   cheap X client-server combo that I can use to play around with
   on my PC (386SX, 42M H.D., 4M RAM, MSDOS 3.3).  Hopefully some
   reasonable facsimile of Xlib and some widgets.   I'm basically looking
   for an educational tool.  We already have a perfectly good implementation
   of X here at work but I never seem to have time to play with it since
   I'm often overcome with a perverse desire to actually do "work".
   Moreover, my wife, who was recently laid-off from DG and who already
   has good X skills would like to keep her hand in it while she
   looks for a new job.  (Actually she mostly worked with Motif, but
   I suppose a PC implementation of Motif would be asking too much!)

   So what's the story?  What's out there for X on PC's?  Thanks in
   advance for any pointers.

                                                     ---Peter