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From: skesterk@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane Kesterke)
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Subject: Windowing environments
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Date: 14 Apr 91 22:22:18 GMT
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I've been working on a Spac station at work for the past month now and I
just love it. Before then I just had a regular PC-350 terminal. The 
Sparc Station is like an unlimited number of PC-350's at your disposal that
all operate at the same time. So I began to wonder how nice it would be
to have this kind of environment on my 386SX at home.
Now I've heard of X-windows for MS-DOS, but I also heard it's like $500.
I was wondering, how close do OS's like MS-Windows and OS/2 come to the
kind of an environment a Sparc station gets you. In other words, a OS that
will allow you to open up multiple MS-DOS windows, cut-n-paste text from
one window to another, etc. From what I understand MS-Windows will only
open windows to MS-Windows specific programs and OS/2 will open an MS-DOS
window but cannot multitask with MS-DOS. If anyone can enlighten me into
an OS that can do what I described I'd really appreciate it. 
Please e-mail your responses and if anyone's interested in a summary then
let me know. Thanks a lot!!