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From: CCMK@latvax8.lat.oz (Mark Kosten - Computer Centre, La Trobe Uni.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DECwindows on PCs
Message-ID: <297@latvax8.lat.oz>
Date: 15 Dec 89 19:24:57 GMT
References: <28362@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University
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In article <28362@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@diablo.amd.com writes:
> I just saw an announcement of DECwindows on a PC. It is called PCSA
> Ver 3.0, from DEC, for $250. It runs out of expanded memory (sure wish
> Sun Micro would teach PC-NFS how to do that instead of whining about
> how hard it is) and leaves you with 512K for local applications. 
> 
> This sounds wonderful assuming that 
> 
> 	1) it really works 
> 	2) DECwindows is another name for X 
> 	3) it runs over TCP/IP as well as DECnet. 

Note that PC DECwindows is available in the current version of
PCSA (2.2), although it is not as good.  v3.0 uses extended or
expanded memory, there are 286 and 386 specific versions, it
works wonderfully as long as you have a couple of megabytes of
memory minimum (barely works with 640KB and disk swapping, okay
at 1MB with some extended memory, and great with +2MB memory),
only uses DECnet (as part of PCSA software) and is not Xwindows.
The last point simply means that you run windows as supplied
on DEC systems, which is DECwindows.  You are only a server
(display).  It completely takes control of your PC, there is
no space left for anything else.

Mark Kosten,          phone: +61 3 479-2767
Computer Centre,      ACSnet/UUCP/Bitnet: ccmk@latvax8.lat.oz
La Trobe University,  X25: 234730008 (ccmk@latrobe.edu.au)
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Victoria 3083
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