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From: mschedlb@binkley.ULowell.EDU (Martin J. Schedlbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DESQview/X vs. X-terminals
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Date: 30 Oct 90 21:07:48 GMT
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Desqview/X is not vaporware. I've seen it in action in May at
Xhibition'90. It worked and it
worked amazingly well. Alpha copies are being shipped to developers
already and general release
is supposed to come in November.

It has support for SuperVGA (I was told) and they are writing device
drivers for major VGA
cards.

It is a full X11R3 server with many of the standard clients, e.g. twm,
uwm, xclock, etc. plus
a new window manager. They also ship OSF/Motif, Xt, and will ship Xview.

It runs well and running over a network is as good as any X application.
Running over a network
is not as bad as it may seem, since X does buffering and all sorts of
tricks to keep the network
traffic low. Actually, the performancxe degredation is usually not
noticable, unless the
network is very heavily loaded.


Martin J. Schedlbauer
Graphics Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, WL 118
University of Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854 (USA)			(508) 934-3612