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From: doyle@b11.ingr.com (Doyle Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Microsoft Windows Release 3.0 to X
Keywords: microsoft X
Message-ID: <9009@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 19:18:18 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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   We would like to export the PC capabilities for Microsoft
Windows Release 3.0 to X-Windows.  The Microsoft Development
Toolkits allow one to write device drivers that capture 
mouse, keyboard, and display conversations.  The intent was
to support vendor specific hardware devices without burdening
the applications developers.  The hardware vendor would supply
a device driver for his hardware and the applications would
be unaffected.
   If the mismatch between the conversations to the device 
driver and X Calls is not prohibitive, it seems that one 
could write device drivers and end up with PC windows under X.
   Has anyone investigated such an approach, and if so what 
were the findings.
   Possibly, one of the Microsoft Windows competitors (DESQview,
Omniview 386, VM/386 MultiTasker, or Vmos/3) has been addressed
instead or as well.

James O. Thompson

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