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From: bruce@hpihoah.HP.COM (Bruce LaVigne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X window for IBM PC?
Message-ID: <6520011@hpihoah.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 89 19:03:27 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> How about the other way around. Is there a product available that allows me
> to run MS-DOS programs from my X Terminal elsewhere on a LAN. Ie an xterm
> like interface.

Hewlett Packard now markets a product called SoftPC, running on either
their series 300 workstations or their series 800 computers, which emulates
an 8086 in software; it puts up a window under X11 and currently supports
monochrome and CGA, and an HPIB 5.25" drive.  The software was written by
Insignia Solutions, and I think it is also available for other hardware
platforms as well.

-bruce

Well, I don't normally offer a disclaimer, but this time I'd better:
These opinions are mine alone, not necessarily my employer's.  I work
for HP and have used their version of SoftPC but am not directly
connected with that effort or with Insignia Solutions at all.