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From: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: X for the IBM PC -- are clients possible?
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Date: 7 Jun 89 20:06:22 GMT
Reply-To: caromero@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (C. Antonio Romero)
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I recently heard that an X server had become available for the IBM PC.
However, my information was a bit sketchy, and I really wasn't paying
attention then because it really didn't matter much then.  But now I
need to know a few things from people who have looked into it or tried
it:

	o Can the PC run both an X server and a client or clients,
	running under DOS?  286 Unix (386 are not an option)? OS/2?

	o Is the PC really anything more than an X terminal when running the X
	server?

	o Who makes it, and what roughly does it cost?

	o Is performance acceptable on an 8 MHz or 10 MHz 286 w/ EGA?

My boss is thinking about trying to port an X application over to a PC,
and I'm trying to find out what's possible.

Thanks for anything you can tell me...
-Antonio Romero     romero@confidence.princeton.edu