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From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X windows on PCs - Who has the best ??
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.220947.24072@Octopus.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 90 22:09:47 GMT
References: <4d2d6d99.28499@apollo.HP.COM>
Reply-To: stever@octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick )
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Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA
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In article <4d2d6d99.28499@apollo.HP.COM> nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes:
>
>
>  From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
>
>>>   So what's the story?  What's out there for X on PC's?  Thanks in
>>>   advance for any pointers.
>>
>>Since you have a 386 PC, you should be able to run X server and clients
>>under UNIX.  X is available for PCs running System V/386 from various
>>vendors such as ISC, SCO, Everex,...  I have only seen X server
>>software for PCs running DOS.
>
>
>   But then I have to use UNIX.  Not that I mind UNIX for certain
>   things, after all, it's the OS I use at work.  But I use DOS
>   at home because I want to take advantage of the apps which are
>   available for DOS.  
>
>      [ And I hope nobody buys that horseshit about "DOS
>        compatibility mode" -- I have Windows 3.0 and Desqview
>        and neither one of them can run 80% of the DOS apps
>        I use regularly-- either because the ones I use do
>        graphics and take over the hardware, or because they
>        play games with DMA and IRQ's as with backup and other
>        utilities.   I have no reason to assume that UNIX with
>        a DOS compatibility mode would do any better! ]
>
>   So anyway I posted my question a week or so ago -- and is this 
>   the consensus?  That there currently IS no X client/server combo
>   for PC's running DOS except for the to-be-released QuarterDeck
>   product?   Does anyone know anything about their product like
>   cost or system requirements?    Thanks in advance.
>
>                                                   ---Peter


The leaflet I have here, says DESQview X will run on an 8086 with 640K,
but I think you will be EXTREMELY limited. You will probably do better on
a 2-4MB 80386. (This is what they ran at their announcement). I don't know
about cost, I will guess that it's going to be somewhere around $200-$250.

Cheers!
Steve

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