Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!mephisto!udel!udccvax1!gilmore From: gilmore@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott Gilmore) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2 Subject: Re: X Server for OS/2? Message-ID: <5730@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 14 Feb 90 04:32:26 GMT References: <6119@umd5.umd.edu> Reply-To: gilmore@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Scott Gilmore) Distribution: comp.os.os2 Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 35 In article <6119@umd5.umd.edu> oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer) writes: >In article neath@solar-1.stars.flab.Fujitsu.JUNET writes: >>Has anyone heard of an X server that will run under PM for OS/2? >C >This seems a little awkward. Kind of like watching a television show on >a TV on a TV but worse. Both X Server and PM (albiet very different) are >windowing servers of a sort. The differences are greater. X is truely a >server, for which front ends must be made. PM is both server and interface >combined. The function and server calls for each system are very different >from each other. The only thing I could see happening is that a toolkit >could be written (maybe) for X that would simulate PM calls and >provide the same interface. For PM, I suppose you might be able >to have somekind of porting tool, but I don't think you would be able >to have X or X apps run under PM. >Richard Oppenheimer oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu There is a product called XVision that does exactly this under Microsoft Windows. According to the press announcement in comp.newprod of several months ago, X applications can run in standard MS-Windows windows, one application per window. Or, the system can be configured so that one MS-Window is a virtual X workstation in which multiple X-windows may reside. The announcement was nearly 200 lines long, so I'd rather not repost it here. In leiu of that, the vendor's name and address are VisionWare, PO Box 3991, Minneapolis, MN 55405, USA Tel +1-612-377-3627 VisionWare Limited, The Leeds Business Park, Morley, Leeds LS27 0JG, UK Tel +44-532-522020. Fax +44-532-526614. Telex 556283. Email: vware@vison.uucp I think it's almost inevitable that they will release a PM version of this product. I've never used it, but it sounds impressive. --- Scott Gilmore gilmore@vax1.acs.udel.edu Mechanical Engineering and Center for Composite Materials, U. of Delaware