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From: haque@dg.cs.umn.edu (Samudra E. Haque)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X implementation for IBM compatibles ??
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Date: 22 May 88 09:09:26 GMT
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Reply-To: haque@dg.cs.umn.edu (Samudra E. Haque)
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Posted: Sun May 22 04:09:26 1988

Hello,
    I don't get read this newsgroup regularily (I only read 52 or so
    other ones on office time ;-), so please try to mail me a note to
    the address in my signature.. If you can't get to me, please post
    a note to soc.net-people as this is really really important for me
    to find out!

    I'd like any pointers as to what the status is (i.e. most current
    revision, if any) of X for the IBM compatible world. Specifically:
        o    does it exist?
		o    does it have mouse support?
        o    does it know about tcp/ip and-or nfs?
        o    what versions should I look for and where?
        o    what major hardware (i.e. memory) does the implementation
             require?
        o    what is the status of Copyright(s) of the software product.

    This is of course assuming that there *is* a version for the PC.
    As of about 2 years ago - I was told "yes", and in fact a few days
    ago again. But, as to the question of "where" .. that is the
    $64000 question.

    Any suggestions will be appreciated. I do have the 60 or so
    megabytes of X11R2 in a tar format - but have not yet unpacked and
    read through the documentation yet. The person who gave me the tar
    file did mention that he did *not* see any words about the PC
    version. I hope he is wrong...


    Thanks very much - and have a nice day!


                          Samudra E. Haque
    Computer Science Laboratories, Computer Science Department
         University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
(1)-(612)-625-0876 || haque@dg.cs.umn.edu || umn-cs!haque%dg.cs.umn.edu