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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: x on pc
Message-ID: <104@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 01:30:56 GMT
References: <5309@hubcap.clemson.edu> <225@isctsse.UUCP>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
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In article <225@isctsse.UUCP> pajerek@isctsse.UUCP (Donald Pajerek) writes:
->In article <5309@hubcap.clemson.edu> rajohn@hubcap.clemson.edu (r alan johnson) writes:
->>I'm interested in some sort of prog or dev. tool that will allow me to write
->>code that I can generate in a PC environment (DOS, not unix) and when then
->>ported to X will run as well. Simply put, I want some sort of
->>way to write X apps (or at least use calls that X will understand) that runs
->>under DOS, without unix, networking, etc.
->
->Either you're missing something, or I am.  Basically, the problem with
->what you want to do is that X applications employ the 'Client/Server'
->model; i.e., there are minimally TWO programs running, the client and
->the server.  Now, there's no reason why both can't be running on the same
->machine, unless that machine happens to be a single-tasking DOS machine.
->
->If you really are restricted to PC's, then you will need two networked
->machines. One of them will run an X server (there are several commercial
->implementations of the X server for PC's under DOS).  The other will run
->your client applications.

Of course, you could also use an Amiga which has a multi-tasking OS and
which runs the server and clients at the same time.  X11 has just been
released on the Amiga, and a bunch of clients are also included.  Xlib
and the toolkit libraries have been promised in the near future.


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