Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!uflorida!novavax!ankh!megasys!megasys!siamak From: siamak (Siamak Ghasemian) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Xwindows on PC Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 15:00:06 GMT References: <74931@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991May6.003105.1619@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Organization: Megasystems, Inc. Delray Beach FL Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: leigh@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov's message of 6 May 91 00: 31:05 GMT 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!!! For the record, Metro Link has been shipping X11R4 and Motif 1.1 since last November for SCO, ISC and ESIX. They support a wide variety of boards including SVGA's, TARGA, 8514's and 340x0 based TIGA boards. Their servers do 16 color, 256 color and 32767 color (hardware permitting :-) They recently came out with a shared library version of the Motif library (libXm.a) which has greatly decreased the size of our clients (on disk and in memory.) We use their servers for monitoring and control applications at Nuclear Power Plants and are quite pleased with their stability, performance and responsiveness to questions. Metro Link, Inc. 2213 W McNab Rd Pompano Beach, Fl 33069 305-970-7353 sales@metrolink.com