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From: billc@mirror.UUCP (Bill Callahan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: X windows server under MS Windows?
Message-ID: <22244@mirror.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 15:32:37 GMT
References: <5417@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <1209@megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: billc@prism.TMC.COM (Bill Callahan)
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dmurdoch@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (D.J. Murdoch - Statistics):

[Writes about X-Windows]

then:

In article <1209@megatest.UUCP> palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
>
>    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. 

    Right now, most of the X-Windows software runs on big Unix machines.
    The displays tend to be specialized terminals.  X-Windows itself doesn't
    contain the window managers.  It seems to me that since there are
    already a lot of PC's hooked up to Unix machines that are capable of
    running the X-Windows package, it would be very logical for someone to
    write an MS-Windows application that would serve as the window manager
    in the system.  Most of the real windowing stuff is already there.  All
    you would really need to write would be something that could handle the
    protocols over whatever link you have to the big machine.  That would
    convert your PC into a very smart X-Windows workstation, for simply the
    cost of the software.  Bet you that would sell!


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