Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!mephisto!gatech!galbp!mm!ken From: ken@mm.uucp (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: X11 on PC class machines under UNIX Message-ID: <1990Feb10.212913.723@mm.uucp> Date: 10 Feb 90 21:29:13 GMT References: <12125@csli.Stanford.EDU> <33500011@silver> Reply-To: ken@mm.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) Organization: MetaMedia, Inc., Atlanta, GA Lines: 41 In article <33500011@silver> mitchemt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu writes: > >/* Written 12:29 am Feb 7, 1990 by poser@csli.Stanford.EDU in silver:comp.windows.x */ >> Can anyone tell me whether X11 has been ported to run on IBM-PC >> class machines (IBM or clone) under variants of UNIX (Xenix etc.)? >> Thanks. > > I dont think it has been ported to IBM PC (8086,8088) or compatibles. > X requires a fair amount of compute power (most people say AT LEAST a 386). > Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. > Terrence Mitchem Your wrong...at least partially. We have in house two versions of the X *server* (no clients) that run on PC class machines. One is from GSS and is called `Xview' and the other is from a shop called Integrated Inference Machines (dumb name of the week award winner) and is called `X11/AT'. These run under DOS and I think will work on anything from a PC up. Don't know for sure, as I don't use them. Under Unix, almost everyone has an X11 on the 386 platforms, and for a wide variety of displays. I've never heard of an X for 286 Unix boxes. For what it's worth, I find X performance on 386-PC architectures abysmal. If you wanna run X, get a real machine. Low end workstations cost less than 386/486 boxes do once you add software, etc. Sorry... -- Ken Seefried iii ...!!uunet!gatech!mm!ken MetaMedia, Inc. ken%mm.uucp@gatech.edu Atlanta, Georgia, USA obquote: "I feel...like a god..."