Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsz!taylor From: taylor@hplabsz.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Xwindows display server for Vectra, etc. Message-ID: <3200@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Date: 10 Apr 89 16:39:09 GMT References: <434@oetl1.oetl.UUCP> Sender: taylor@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM Reply-To: taylor@hplabsz.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) Organization: Intuitive Systems; guest of Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Lines: 77 Jack H. Ostroff of Rutgers University asks: > Assuming this is the same product, I first heard about it over half a > year ago. It's release was then indefinitely delayed, and I just > heard last month the release would be "any day now." (only slight :-)) > It apparently allows you to run XWindows on the PC talking to clients > (or is that servers?) on Unix machines via a lan (such as ThinLan or > StarLan). The following is quoted directly from the HP Press Release: Release Date: March 14th, 1989 High Performance X Window Display Server Now Available For the PC Hewlett-Packard Company today announced HP AXDS/PC, an accelerate X Window System display server that gives personal computers high-performance network access to UNIX-system-based X Window Graphics applications. Together with HP's intelligent-graphics controller for industry- standard PCs, this new software accelerates graphics-application performance to 2 million instructions per second -- equivalent to the HP 9000 Model 330 workstation configured as an X Window System Server. Because the code is downloaded into the memory of the HP intelligent graphics controller, performance is not limited by the MS-DOS operating system or PC configuration. By comparison, most competing X server products are limited in performance since the X11 server code is implemented as an MS-DOS application. The display server, which is based on the industry-standard X Window System Version 11 Release 3, enables the PC user to have network access to both UNIX-based X Window System applications and MS-DOS office-automation applications. HP AXDS/PC requires an HP Vectra PC (or another PC based on industry standard architecture) with 640 Kbytes of RAM, the HP intelligent graphics controller, ThinkLAN or StarLAN 10 card and networking software, and one of a variety of high resolution color monitors. The HP AXDS/PC software has a U.S. list price of $500 and is expected to be available in the second quarter of 1989. ---- You might also contact a firm called Graphic Software Systems of Beaverton Oregon; they have a similar product called PC-Xview which looks very competitive. Finally, for completeness sake, Graph-On Corporation also has an X window system server for a PC, but it requires a Sun-3 or Sun-4 to, as they say, "run its X11 Window Server software"... ---- Contact information: Hewlett-Packard Sales Information (800) 752-0900 or HP Inquiries, 19310 Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014 Graphic Software Systems, Inc. (503) 641-2200 9590 SW Gemini Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005 Graph-On Corporation (408) 435-8400 1980 Concourse Drive, San Jose, CA 95131 ---- I hope this helps you in your quest for a PC-based X! -- Dave Taylor Intuitive Systems Los Altos, California Guest of HP Laboratories: taylor@hplabs.hp.com