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From: dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.att,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: windowing environment for AT&T 386/UNIX
Keywords: X-windows is here!
Message-ID: <486@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 17:41:58 GMT
References: <4893@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <290@lzaz.ATT.COM> <607@ctisbv.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien)
Organization: WINCO, INEL, Idaho
Lines: 36

In article <607@ctisbv.UUCP> pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
|>In article <290@lzaz.ATT.COM> hgp@lzaz.ATT.COM (H.PAGE) writes:
|>>In article <4893@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, hintz@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HINTZ  THOMAS ANDREW) writes:
|>>> I have heard rumors about a UNIX windowing environ for 386UNIX.
|>>> Has anyone else heard about this? I wonder if it uses the vt's?
|>>> 
|>>	Ask your AT&T account rep. about:
|>>
|>>		select code 1331-717: X-win end user sys
|>>		select code 1331-718: X-win programmers utility
|>
|>Maybe it is time for some comparison between the X's for UNIX/386:
|>AT&T's X11, Interactive's X11, Enix's X11
|>and perhaps the forthcoming X11 for SCO Xenix.
|>Bell's X for the W.G.E. card is X10, so I guess that would be
|>comparing apples to oranges.
|>
|> [stuff deleted]

The AT&T XWindows is 11.2, and is supposed to be really nice, and even
run on an EGA card (!?). The problem is that it's hardwired to StarLAN,
and won't gracefully get to Ethernet :-(, without a StarLAN to Ethernet
convertor. We're all still waiting..........



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