Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!meaddata!keves From: keves@meaddata.com (Brian Keves) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview Subject: Re: DESQview/X Message-ID: <4446@meaddata.meaddata.com> Date: 20 May 91 17:22:38 GMT Article-I.D.: meaddata.4446 References: <4314@meaddata.meaddata.com> <1405@ai.cs.utexas.edu> Sender: usenet@meaddata.com Distribution: usa Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH Lines: 32 In article <1405@ai.cs.utexas.edu> bradley@cs.utexas.edu (Bradley L. Richards) writes: >Brian Keves writes: >>The main interest in X running under DOS in my company is that you >>can run X applications on your Unix systems. You don't have to purchase >>workstations for all of your people. They can use all of those old, outdated >>and antique computers and still get some work done. Oops, sorry about that. >>Don't want to start any religious wars with you PC types. > >Question: what sort of network is required? For example, will this work by >modem link? I asked Quarterdeck this at one point, but never got an answer. Many of the X on DOS products support the major networks, like PC/NFS (SUN), PC/TCP (FTP), Wollagong, White Sides (sp?), etc... In a developer's document that Quarterdeck published last year concerning DESQview/X, they support FTP PC/TCP or Novell only. It also indicated that the network support was a separate product from DESQview/X. Reference: DESQview/X; Extending DOS into the 21st Century; A Technical Perspective. This support seems pitiful, since PC/XView 16 from GSS supports around 50 networking solutions, including SLIP, all bundled with their base product. Any comment from Quarterdeck. Brian -- Brian Keves | Opinions/Ideas presented | Mead Data Central P.O. Box 149 | here are not necessarily | CASE Support Miamisburg, OH 45343-0149 | those of Mead or Mead | keves@meaddata.com (513) 865-1121 x5767 | Data Central | ...!uunet!meaddata!keves