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From: golding@saturn.ucsc.edu (Richard A. Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: PM/X versus X windows
Message-ID: <7101@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 12 May 89 21:11:12 GMT
Organization: U.C. Santa Cruz, CIS/CE.
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There has been some recent discussion which indicated that PM/X
(Presentation Manager/Xenix) from Microsoft would work with X windows.
That is definitely not the case.  PM/X is a port of PM 1.1 to Xenix
and nothing else; the idea is to support essentially the same source
API as OS/2 PM.  Support for a brain-dead X server under OS/2 PM is
a future thing, not yet really started on.

Note that the /X in PM/X is for Xenix, not for X Windows; other MS
products use /X e.g. LanMan/X is the Xenix version of OS/2 Lan Manager.

By the way, don't assume that if Bill Gates says something it's
true...

-richard (golding@saturn.ucsc.edu) (recently-ex-MS PM developer)