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From: leigh@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Albert Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Xwindows on PC
Message-ID: <1991May6.003105.1619@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 6 May 91 00:31:05 GMT
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In article <74931@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, v056pfqe@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Richard M Humphrey) writes:
|> I got a great deal on a 386-33 which I'm going to run under Unix. That's
|> not a problem, but I want to use X windows and I don't know if it's available,
|> but that's not so much a problem as this:
|> If I get this PC what kind of display should I buy that will run X windows.

There are a few PC/Unix vendors who support X-Windows.  The big boys are
Santa Cruz Operation and Interactive (a Kodak Company).  Both of these systems
come with X11R3 and Motif (1.0 I think).  Other vendors are Esix, UHC, Dell, etc.  Anyway, SCO has a lot of Xenix flavor and so far SCO does not have 256- color support yet.  SCO comes with OpenDesktop (therefore, their OS is called ODT) and Interactive comes with Looking Glass.  Later this year, most vendors should support X11R4 by the time MIT releases X11R5!!!  Some vendors also provide OpenLook.  I would say Interactive (***) is a better development system for graphics applications.  It supports a long









 list of VGA cards (to 256 colors and resolutions to 1280x1024) such as ATI, Compaq, CompuAdd, DELL, Genoa, Hercules, Hyundai, Matrox, Orchid, Panasonic, Paradise, Parallex, Princeton, Renaissance, Sigma, STB, Tatung, Trident, Tseng Labs, Video-7, etc...  I've got a SONY 1304 non-interlace 1024x768 multiscan (14") and am very happy with it.

Here are the addresses:

The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
400 Encinal St, P.O.Box 1900,
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
1-800-SCO-UNIX

Interactive Systems Corporation (***)
2401 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(800) 346-7111