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From: bob@eriador.prime.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: x on pc
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Date: 4 May 89 20:25:00 GMT
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Nf-From: eriador.prime.com!bob    May  4 16:25:00 1989


>> Or, if you prefer to avoid networked DOS,  there are UNIX
>> implementations that run on PCs!
>> SCO is just starting to ship developer versions of SCO Xsight under
>> SCO UNIX for 386 machines.
>> - Dion L. Johnson  (dion_l_johnson@cup.portal.com)


I think that most of these responses miss the point.  There is nothing
about X which *dictates* that it run over a network or on a multitasking
system.  Period.  

You could easily right a graphics library on the PC which had the same 
API as Xlib.  You could even do event handling the same way.  You could then
take some X application and recompile it on a PC and it would work.

bob pellegrino
Prime Computer, Inc.