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From: cressler@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Scott Cressler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X on PC
Message-ID: <68040001@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 17:22:55 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.165247.4657@mcs.anl.gov>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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You sort of asked two questions: what is the good "X on a PC" package, and 
how do I get X at home?  I don't have a good answer on the latter, partly 
because "it depends" and partly because *I* don't have anything.  However, I'd
just throw out the good solutions I've heard being used: a GraphOn X terminal
(which could work across a modem to your work workstation) or some sort of 
UN*X on your PC at home (essentially converting your PC into a workstation).
I also believe something called DesqView (which I have not looked into much
but which I think is sort of a MS Windows competitor) might support local X.

As to "X on a PC", i.e. *displaying* X windows on a PC, XVision from VisionWare
(UniPress or GSS in the U.S.) is *excellent*.  It runs under (with?) Windows 3.0
on a PC (with 2 meg, a LAN card, and networking software :-) and will display
either an entire X environment in a Win3 window or (and this is the part I 
love) a single X client window in a single Win3 window.  If you're widgets are
similar enough to Win3 (e.g. OSF/Motif), you wouldn't even have to know it was
an X client!

Scott.