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From: palowoda@megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: X windows server under MS Windows?
Message-ID: <1336@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 89 06:46:55 GMT
References: <2389@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <2389@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM>, by rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (rogerson):
> Here is a message that appeared in the xwindow group!
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> For those interested in using X Windows Version 11 on an IBM-AT or
> compatible, Integrated Inference Machines has developed an X11 server
> which runs under MS-DOS using Microsoft Windows.  The server converts
> an IBM-AT into an X Windows terminal.  It requires a system
> with at least 2Meg of extended memory and currently requires an
> Excelan ethernet board (others are planned).  Because the server
> runs under Microsoft Windows, a large variety of monochrome and
> color displays are supported.
> 
> For more information, contact:
> 
> Tricia Nuskin or Charles Ross
> Integrated Inference Machines
> 1468 E. Katella Avenue
> Anahiem, California 92805
> Phone (714)978-6776
> FAX (714)939-0746

    I contacted them, another case of the vaporware. It's due out
    sometime in April. They said they where porting it over from
    another system. When they release it it will work with the
    Excelan eithernet card with there TCP. That card and software
    isn't cheap, somewhere around $800.00.
    The idea of running MSwindows under X is still somewhat confuseing
    to me. Xwindows is a client/server model for a windowning system
    and all that a manufacture has to do is write a "window manager"
    into it. 

    I can visualize mswindows as maybe an extended set with X. 
    How would one handle the mouse routines? Can you disable them
    in MSwindows and replace them with with the Xwindows driver?
    Writting a windows manager for X that has a look and feel
    of MSwindows shouldn't be too difficult. I can here the lawyers
    brains clunking on the last statement. 

    I guess the big question is: If X-windows already has the features
    of MSwindows why spend the time and money getting it to run under
    MSwindows?

    By the way they said there package will be around 400.00. You 
    can already get Xwindows for DOS from LOCUS for that figure.

    ---Bob

> -- 
> William S. Cole, University of Southern California
> ARPA: cole@dworkin.USC.EDU 
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