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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PC X Windows
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.180104.1653@grebyn.com>
Date: 17 Mar 91 18:01:04 GMT
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In article <9103112137.AB17929@expo.lcs.mit.edu> HAYS%POGUN@dupont.COM ("Randy L. Hays, Ponca ATD, ETN 442-5073") writes:
>Has anyone ported the X window system to the PC?  Can a PC application be 
>developed that uses X as its display facility?  I haven't seen one around and 
>was wondering if one exists.

None exist for MS-DOS, and none will.  X Windows depends heavily on the
ability to multi-task, and MS-DOS doesn't.

I haven't read enough about Desqview/X to say whether it uses the Xlib
programming model for applications it's running, but they say it uses
the X protocol for it's display rendering and therefore "acts a a bridge
between Unix and PCs" (paraphrased from their ads; means squat to me).
But again, that's not DOS.

What you could do if you're really looking for application source
portability between PCs and Unix/X is to use an interface lib like XVT.
Then it's really MS Windows on the PC, but that's not so bad.
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