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From: jns@fernwood.mpk.ca.US (Jerry Sweet)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: DESQview/X
Message-ID: <9012110545.AA23163@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Date: 11 Dec 90 05:45:58 GMT
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Today with my SunTech Journal, I got a little brochure on DESQview/X,
which purports to be an X client and server implementation for IBM PC
compatible machines running under DOS.

It also claims to provide "remote DOS computing".  The brochure describes
the capability thus: "Gives DOS users access to more powerful DOS programs
that are not capable of being run on their own machine."

This almost sounds useful, since, if it's true, you can then buy lots
of relatively cheap software for a single 386 PC running multiple DOS
sessions and use it to serve (in the non-X sense of serve) your other
X-based workstations spreadsheets and whatnot.  Is this possible?  I
dunno for sure, but that's the implication I get after a brief
not-very-careful and not-extremely-PC-wise reading of the brochure.
Any comments from the peanut gallery?