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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: processor for graphics terminal [was: PC/AT clones with RISC cpu]
Message-ID: <314@cadlab.sublink.ORG>
Date: 9 Nov 90 08:01:06 GMT
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graeme@labtam.labtam.oz (Graeme Gill) writes:
	...
>would lead to better performance. - and another thing, the PC applications
>would then become X11 compatible; at last you could run all those nifty
>PC programs from your Xterminal/Workstation etc.

According to Quarterdeck advertising (a neat brochure in a recent issue
of BYTE mag), this compatibility can be yours next January with
X/Desqview.  A SW-only solution, so performance is in question, but...

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