Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!canterbury.ac.nz!cctr132 From: cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Nick FitzGerald, CSC, Uni. of Canterbury, NZ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Converting my PC-AT to a X Windows terminal Message-ID: <1991Jun28.172722.1232@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Date: 28 Jun 91 05:27:22 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Lines: 30 In article , beaudoin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Beaudoin) writes: > I would like to use my PC-AT as a X Windows terminal. Are there any > shareware, free or commercially available products to do just this? > > I don't want to install UNIX or Xenix or Minix on my system. I just > want a terminal emulator that will use my graphic card and my mouse > and that will run on DOS 3.3 like kermit or Procomm Plus. The answer to the first question is "Yes - there are commercial packages which will turn an appropriately networked PC into an X-server" (if there are non-commercial ones I haven't heard of them). I have been looking into the feasibility of doing this here. It seems that Martin has a slightly simplistic view of the "world of X" if he thinks getting it up on a PC will be like running a dumb-terminal emulator like his favourite comms progs though (no I'm not flaming Kermit or PCPlus - read the sentence again, carefully). Many of the PC X-servers run under Windows 3, some don't and others come in both flavours. Given this it would be reasonable to expect to need a machine that does a fair job of running MS Windows if you want to get an X-server up on it. Recommend that you start monitoring the comp.windows.x group for a few days till the monthly four-part FAQ arrives again (must be due within a week or so). In this compendium of questions and answers you will find a summary of the mainvendors/ products for getting X up on a PC. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick FitzGerald, PC Applications Consultant, CSC, Uni of Canterbury, N.Z. Internet: n.fitzgerald@csc.canterbury.ac.nz Phone: (64)(3) 642-337