forrest@sybase.com (10/06/90)
I just finished reading "DESQview/X, A Technical Perspective"
which talks about plans for a new version of DESQview. This new version
will contain a whole bunch of stuff, among which are:
o An MSDOS X server
o Various window managers
o Xlib, Xt, and various toolkits
o MSDOS system software to make all this work right
This document says nothing about cost but, given the rapidly
descreasing price of CPU's and memory, I wonder what DESQview/X
will do to the X-terminal market. For that matter, I wonder if this
will help make developing X applications more profitable since the
number of machines capable of running DESQview/X will be very large.
And, I wonder what this will do to the Windows 3.0 and OS/2-PM market.
(Of course, all this assumes that DESQview/X works well).
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Jon Forrest WB6EDM
forrest@sybase.com
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415-596-3422granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu (10/09/90)
In article <11193@sybase.sybase.com>, forrest@sybase.com writes: > I just finished reading "DESQview/X, A Technical Perspective" > which talks about plans for a new version of DESQview. This new version > will contain a whole bunch of stuff, among which are: > > o An MSDOS X server > o Various window managers > o Xlib, Xt, and various toolkits > o MSDOS system software to make all this work right > . . . The obvious request is: Could someone post a copy of this? I suspect that Quarterdeck would be more-than-happy. -Larry Granroth@IowaSP.physics.UIowa.edu IOWASP::GRANROTH
yiannis@HITCHCOCK.ENG.UIOWA.EDU (10/09/90)
That would be kind of hard to do. The review that forrest@sybase.com was talking about came in a small (yet dense) booklet inside the IBM-specific issue of byte. Typing it in decent amount of time would require some fingers -:) -Y. E. Papelis yiannis@hitchcock.eng.uiowa.edu
jan@moses.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch) (10/10/90)
In article <1990Oct8.213042.1011@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu writes: >In article <11193@sybase.sybase.com>, forrest@sybase.com writes: >> I just finished reading "DESQview/X, A Technical Perspective" >> which talks about plans for a new version of DESQview. This new version >> will contain a whole bunch of stuff, among which are: >> >> o An MSDOS X server >> o Various window managers >> o Xlib, Xt, and various toolkits >> o MSDOS system software to make all this work right >> . . . > >The obvious request is: Could someone post a copy of this? I doubt it - it has lots of pages. I faxed QuarterDeck (found the number in Byte) and was sent a copy in less than a week. +----------------------+---+ Jan Newmarch, Information Science and Engineering, University of Canberra, PO Box 1, Belconnen, Act 2616 Australia. Tel: (Aust) 6-2522422. Fax: (Aust) 6-2522999 ACSnet: jan@ise.canberra.edu.au ARPA: jan%ise.canberra.edu.au@uunet.uu.net UUCP: {uunet,ukc}!munnari!ise.canberra.edu.au!jan JANET: jan%au.edu.canberra.ise@EAN-RELAY +--------------------------+ > >-Larry Granroth@IowaSP.physics.UIowa.edu IOWASP::GRANROTH
jan@golf.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch) (10/11/90)
In article <1990Oct10.033323.12590@csc.canberra.edu.au> jan@moses.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch) writes: >I faxed QuarterDeck (found the number in >Byte) and was sent a copy [of their technical report on X] >in less than a week. I didn't include the contact in that posting since I didn't have it with me. Here it is: Quarterdeck Office Systems 150 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405 USA (213) 392-9851 Fax: (213) 399-3802 +----------------------+---+ Jan Newmarch, Information Science and Engineering, University of Canberra, PO Box 1, Belconnen, Act 2616 Australia. Tel: (Aust) 6-2522422. Fax: (Aust) 6-2522999 ACSnet: jan@ise.canberra.edu.au ARPA: jan%ise.canberra.edu.au@uunet.uu.net UUCP: {uunet,ukc}!munnari!ise.canberra.edu.au!jan JANET: jan%au.edu.canberra.ise@EAN-RELAY
mark@infolog.se (Mark Plotnick) (10/17/90)
In article <1990Oct8.213042.1011@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu> granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu writes: >In article <11193@sybase.sybase.com>, forrest@sybase.com writes: >> I just finished reading "DESQview/X, A Technical Perspective" >> which talks about plans for a new version of DESQview. This new version What would be the difference between this and a X-Server application running under Windows-3? Mark mark@infolog.se