smyser@athena.mit.EDU (02/22/91)
I'm seeing multiple requests for this sort of information, so I thought maybe a
lot of people would benefit from the following.
Briefly, DESQview/X was being shown at Networld'91 in Boston a week or two ago.
By the same people who make the QEMM386 memory menagement software and
the Desqview task-switching operating environment for PCs, DESQview/X seems to
be the first full implementation of X on PC class machines.
Several things impressed me about the product:
first, each machine running DESQview/X runs an X server that looks very fast;
memory limits have been the bane of other PC X servers, and DESQview/X is
written by the people who perhaps know the most about effective PC memory
management.
second, DESQvie/X can take character-based DOS programs and convert them to X
client calls. In other words, you can run lotus on the PC and have its windows
appear on yur workstation.
third, the company has ported the Motif and Open Look toolkits to DOS, so you
can move workstation client software to PCs and compile it there. They had
already done most of the standard demo programs (Xeyes, Xmaze, etc) and were
showing them running on the two PCs.
More info is available, I'm sure, from:
Quarterdesk Office Systems
150 Pico Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90405
(213) 392-9851 fax (213) 399-3802
I'm not at all affiliated with the company, but it really seemed like they
understood the X mentality and were working to make PCs true peers on both the
client and server side, which is unique to the industry at this point.
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Rob Smyser
Manager, Computer Resource Laboratories
MIT School of Architecture and Planning
77 Massachusetts Ave #9-532
Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-3535
fax (617) 253-8000
smyser@athena.mit.edu
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