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From: davidsen@rdsunx.crd.GE.COM (William E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DESQview/X
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Date: 14 May 91 18:58:36 GMT
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In article <6651@gssc.UUCP>, johnl@gssc.UUCP (John Light) writes:
|> To clear up fears of a $1500 Desqview/X:
|> 
|> The runtime will be sold at a price comparable to Desqview.

  I'm not holding my breath. I sent them a letter saying that I had
about 500 PCs here which we were interested in putting on our net as X
terminals, and they didn't send me any info at all. Then I called and
was told that it wasn't ready for shipping yet.

  Fortunately there are people shipping things now, which are not
remotely as neat, but infinitely more deliverable. All I need is a box
which looks like an X terminal, since the WMs are licensed on hundreds
of our other machines here.

|> Network support will be optional.
|> 
|> The Motif environment will be optional.
|> 
|> The Open Look environment will be optional.

  Is delivery of a product optional, too?