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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DESQview/X vs. X-terminals
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.015213.29876@amd.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 01:52:13 GMT
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In article <251@infolog.se> mark@infolog.se (Mark Plotnick) writes:
|>> I just finished reading "DESQview/X, A Technical Perspective"
|What would be the difference between this and a X-Server application
|running under Windows-3?

As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong), DV/X offers three
interesting capabilities, some might be obvious, some might not.

1) X server host. You could run X clients on your favorite Unix box
and use your PC as the display.

2) X client(s) host. You could buy your favorite X client(s) from
SW publishers (who may or may not exist right now) and run them
on your PC without depending on a friendly Unix box being available.
You could be running the X server at the same time. Or you might
be sitting on an X terminal, with the PC running DV/X locked in
a closet.

3) DOS application server. That is, a Unix box with an X server
could open up a DOS application on a PC with DV/X and run it as
an X client. So software that only runs on a PC could be made
available to a Unix community. I suppose you could buy Lotus for
$400, put it on a 486, and let a few dozen people run it at the
same time.

It would be interesting to see what kind of displays mode 3 supports.
Would it be TEXT only, or would VGA be supported? What would that
do to your network...

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