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From: dkyoon@pollux.usc.edu (Dae-Kyun Yoon)
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Subject: Re: X for Windows
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Date: 21 Dec 90 10:28:53 GMT
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rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson) writes:

>	Does anyone have any comments on DesqView/X.
>	I am sure many of you have seen the "insert" in the
>	current issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal.

I'v had a chance to take a look at the demonstration of DesqView/X at COMDEX
90'.  One of the important thing about DesqView/X is you can run client 
programs as well as X-server.   In other words, you can run x-applications
on the PC together with server.  So, you don't really have to be connected
to the main host (or remote host) to run x-applications.  At the demo, 
DesqView/X was running on a 386/pc conntected to the SUN (I remember it was
a SUN-SPARCS),  and the performance was acceptable (to me) despite running
a couple of X apps on the PC.  Oh, I forgot to mention this.  DesqView/X
had xterm-like shell application, so you could open a DOS shell-window
on the SUN-Sparcs, as well as unix-shell window on the PC.

The other thing I was impressed is QuaterDeck's own version of window
manager.  It is an icon-based object manager which is similar to
Mac-interface, but to me it looked better than MS-windows ProgManger or
Macintosh.

QuaterDeck people told me that porting an existing X-application to DesqView/X 
environment wouldn't be that hard, because DesqView/X comes together with 
Xlib, Xtoolkit and even with OSF's Motif.  But I think those hassels
involved in memory management won't let the X-apps run smoothly on the
PC.

Anyway, overall impression about the product was very good despite the
crash during the demo. (*only* one crash for 30+ minutes). Of course,
this is not a release version, so I expect the releas version
would be much more reliable.  And, wider support for graphics devices
is also expected.  (Currently they support 8514/A and DGIS, right ?)
 
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Dae-kyun Yoon
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