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From: palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: X windows server under MS Windows?
Message-ID: <1209@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 05:43:01 GMT
References: <5417@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <5417@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>, by dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (D.J. Murdoch - Statistics):
> The January issue of Byte talks about X Windows, the windowing system from MIT.
> I've used it on Unix, and thought that was the only place it ran, but apparently
> it's supposed to be a general purpose windowing system, and servers for it can
> be written on any machine with a good enough screen.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a server written to run under Microsoft Windows?  
> It seems a natural feature for any terminal emulator to support.

    Actually I think you have it backwards, run Microsoft Windows under
    X-windows. And it's already being done. ATT's Unix 3.2 with there X-windows
    and Simul-task allows this to run on 386 ATT and clone machines. On EGA.
    Looks good too. Locus has it running under dos. Running X-windows from a
    dos machine to a dos machine would be difficult to implement the
    client/server model because dos is a single tasking/single user OS.
    I would consider Microsoft windows to be a window manager. Thus it
    would be Microsofts responsibilty to get it running under X-windows. 


      ---Bob

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