sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) (08/30/88)
In article <1611@qiclab.UUCP>, neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn) writes: > > Another piece of bad news in the "I Want It All" department - The DOS > under Unix product VP/ix is mutually exclusive with X-Windows 10.4. > Apparently the two packages have irreconcilable differences and can't > be installed at the same time. Too bad. Fortunately the install programs Is this for 386's as well? Then, it naturally follows, when Open Look comes out on AT&T's 6386 we won't be able to run VP/ix with it? Sheez! -- Michael Sullivan {uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan V-Systems, Inc. Santa Ana, CA sullivan@vsi.com "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of eldeberries! Pbbbt!"
wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c]) (09/04/88)
In article <828@vsi.UUCP> sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes: :In article <1611@qiclab.UUCP>, neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn) writes: :> Another piece of bad news in the "I Want It All" department - The DOS :> under Unix product VP/ix is mutually exclusive with X-Windows 10.4. :Is this for 386's as well? Then, it naturally follows, when Open Look :comes out on AT&T's 6386 we won't be able to run VP/ix with it? Sheez! AT&T doesn't sell an X10.4 product. The System V 3.2 for 386s will have X11.2 (don't know if it's included or extra). If the vendors you got VP/ix and X10.4 from (Bell Tech??) don't work together, beat up on them. Actually, I'm not totally surprised - X wants to own the screen, and VP/IX wants to parcel the screen out to DOS clones, and short of running DOS in X windows, it's not obvious what a good solution is. -- #Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs # Now I don't mean to insult the intelligence of the younger people here, # but you really shouldn't try fire-eating on your own. You shouldn't # even be smoking cigarrettes like us ....... Unless you want to look cool.
les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) (09/04/88)
In article <231@skep2.ATT.COM> wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.[ho95c],2G218,x0705,) writes: >them. Actually, I'm not totally surprised - X wants to own the screen, >and VP/IX wants to parcel the screen out to DOS clones, and short of >running DOS in X windows, it's not obvious what a good solution is. How about the same solution that applies to every other unix device? Write a driver that supplies the required functions and an interlocking mechanism to parcel them out to the applications that request them. Then you could have virtual terminals without having to fire up a DOS emulator (seemed like a pretty strange concept to me anyway... unix in a dos window?). Les Mikesell
neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn) (09/04/88)
In article <828@vsi.UUCP> sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes: > >Is this for 386's as well? Then, it naturally follows, when Open Look >comes out on AT&T's 6386 we won't be able to run VP/ix with it? Sheez! This is true for Unix 3.1 on the 80386. Release 3.2 comes with X-Windows 11, in the same kind of a package that Release 3.1 came with 10.4. The latest version of VP/IX will work with X-Windows, at least on specific 80386 workstations. I believe that Open Look on the AT&T machine will run with VP/ix - At least that is what I have been told. -- Steven C. Neighorn !tektronix!{psu-cs,reed,ogcvax}!qiclab!neighorn Intel Corporation "Where we BUILD the Star Fighters that defend the Development Tools Operation frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada"
fmcgee@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT4103000~Frank McGee~C23~M24~6326~) (09/15/88)
In article <828@vsi.UUCP> sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes: >In article <1611@qiclab.UUCP>, neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn) writes: >> >> Another piece of bad news in the "I Want It All" department - The DOS >> under Unix product VP/ix is mutually exclusive with X-Windows 10.4. >> Apparently the two packages have irreconcilable differences and can't >> be installed at the same time. Too bad. Fortunately the install programs > >Is this for 386's as well? Then, it naturally follows, when Open Look >comes out on AT&T's 6386 we won't be able to run VP/ix with it? Sheez! AT&T's Unix/X/Open Look/Vpix products all work together quite nicely under System V Release 3.2 and X Windows Version 11.2 (those are what AT&T is currently shipping). I've seen them all work together on both the AT&T 6386 and 6386E; no problems having 2 or 3 Simultask windows open with an Open Look application going as well. They eat a lot of memory though..... Frank McGee Tier 3 Indirect Channel Sales Support attmail!fmcgee