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From: yow@riddler.Berkeley.EDU (Billy Yow 283-4051)
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Subject: Re: DESQview/X again...
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Date: 17 May 91 15:54:14 GMT
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>  If I read my notes right, the developer version does not include a
>window manager, but I can get MOTIF or OpenLook for $500 more.


DESQview/X is (will be) several products:

The DESQview/X runtime is a X-Server and Quarterdeck's Window Manager.
The Motif or Open Look window managers could also be run on this Server
either on the local machine or remotely from say a Sun SparcStation.

I don't know if Quarterdeck will sell the Motif or Open Look window
managers without the full Motif or Open Look development kit.  I will
assume that at sometime these will be available separately.

Development kits:

X-lib -- Lets you write X-Programs at the X-lib level. It supports Real
Mode, 286 Extended and 386 Extended mode programs. (Note: Extended mode
can also be called protected mode.)

Motif Toolkit -- Lets you write Motif X-Window programs in 286 or 386
Extended mode.

Open Look Toolkit -- Lets you write Open Look X Window programs in 286
or 386 Extended mode.

XVT Toolkit -- Lets you write to a virtual windowing toolkit which can
then be linked with Mac, Win 3, OS/2 and X Windows libraries.  This has
no window manager.

While Desqview/X is in beta the Server, Quarterdeck's Window Manager and
X-Lib products are combined.  When the product is released they will be
broken apart.  


> Or I can buy PC-NFS and xview and have production software on my desk
today.

Yes you can buy xview.  But that is only a SERVER you will never be able
to use it for running PC text application on another X-server.  Nor can
you write a X based PC program.  If all you need is simple X-Servers,
then xview maybe the best way to go.  If you wish to make the PCs more
of an equal in a X environment then Desqview/X is going to be the better
way to go.

All of this information is in Desqview's X booklet that has been in a
number of magazines over the pass 6 months.

I have no connect with Quarterdeck other than being a user of their
products.

					Bill Yow
					yow@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
					
My opinions are my own!  All errors in the above information are also my
own.