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From: jka@radar0.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Alright, I got a question about PC X-Servers!
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Date: 22 Feb 91 15:32:23 GMT
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In article <1991Feb21.050550.4351@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:
>
>   I dont need a filesystem on these PC servers; all I want is the
>graphical interface.  Obviously it can be done, as the X-Terminals
>have managed to do it without having UNIX resident.
>

 This question has been asked quite a bit lately. Heres what I know. There
 are quite a few X servers for that DOS PC out there the one that I'm using
 is called HCL-exceed plus. It runs under DOS with tcp/ip. Its a pretty good
 X server, fast, many fonts etc. It runs on 286,386 or 486 systems, the more
 memory you have the better. I also evaluated another PC/X server called
 PC XVIEW, this server seemed just as good as the exceed plus, but I saw
 some performance comparisons somewhere that said that exceedp was faster.
 Both of these packages allow you to suspend your X session to run DOS
 programs and then hot key back to the X session. There are also packages
 that allow the X server to run under windows 3.0, which allow the X server
 to run while DOS programs are running, I've heard that the performance
 on these isn't that good. Also there's this soon to be released
 Desqview/X which sounds like the PC X server to beat all.
					Hope this helps
					  Keith Alston
-- 
"In this world you must be OH so smart or OH so pleasant...
			 I recommend pleasant"----> Elwood P. Dowd
Lockheed Eng. and Sci. Co./Nasa Larc|J. Keith Alston jka@radar0.larc.nasa.gov