Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!futures!blinky!scott From: scott@Futures.COM (Scott Boyd) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Dos Windows for OpenWindows? Message-ID: <9375@blinky.Futures.COM> Date: 18 Mar 91 04:39:30 GMT References: <1991Mar13.001201.21082@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> Reply-To: scott@futures.com Organization: Recycled Cycles Accepted Here Lines: 23 fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes: >My Sun sales rep assures me that Sun is >licensing this product (or buying it or whatever) and that it will, >with some improvements, BE DOS Windows 2.0 when that comes out this >Summer. >1. Runs Under Open Windows. That means, among other things, that I >can run it on one of our 490 servers and have the output displayed on >my workstation (a 490 makes a pretty peppy PC :-). YOWZA! It seems that Phoenix Technologies Ltd's attitude *no networked DOS windows* is finally gonna cost them. Sun has been trying for years to network its DOS Windows products, but Phoenix kept saying no. If SoftPC works as well DOSwindows on a Sun386i/250 but networked under OpenWindows, it will be a nice product. -- +---------------------+-----------------------------+-------------------------+ | Scott Boyd | Remember: If looks could | Working at home again! | | scott@futures.com | kill, we'd all be dead! | When will I learn? | +---------------------+-----------------------------+-------------------------+