jcdixon@cbnewse.att.com (jack.c.dixon) (08/30/90)
In the xview2-announce file a list was given of the platforms that Xview
is being ported to:
Platform Vendor
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DEC Station Sun Microsystems
HP 9000/300 Sun Microsystems
IBM RIOS Sun Microsystems
DOS Quarterdeck ***************************
AUX ICS
VMS TGV
What kind of animal would an xview port to DOS be? Would it be a windows3.0
toolkit or a DESQview toolkit or what? Would it lose its Open Look L&F?
Anyone know?
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Jack Dixon, AT&T
{ ...!att!vogon!jcd, jcd@vogon.att.com }rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) (08/31/90)
In article <1990Aug29.203237.9320@cbnewse.att.com> jcdixon@cbnewse.att.com (jack.c.dixon) writes: > >In the xview2-announce file a list was given of the platforms that Xview >is being ported to: : >DOS Quarterdeck *************************** : >What kind of animal would an xview port to DOS be? It is a DESQview/X port. > Would it be a windows3.0 >toolkit or a DESQview toolkit or what? A DESQview/X toolkit, applications written with this toolkit will run on the PC (as a client) but any machine on the network can act as the server. > Would it lose its Open Look L&F? Impossible, you couldn't call it XView/OL... >Anyone know? Here's how it works (from Quarterdeck's, "DESQview/X, A Technical Perspective"): ,,,>[SCREEN] : | : +----+-----+ +----------+ +----------+ : | | | | | | : | | | | | | : | X-server | | Standard | | DOS | : | |----------| DOS |----------+----------| Extended | 640K : | | | Extended | | | Memory | : | | Standard | Memory | Standard | X-client | X-client | : | | DOS | Appl. | DOS | | | : | | Appl. | | Graphics | | | : | | | | Appl. | | | : | | | | | | | : | ^ ^ | | | v | v v | v | : | | | | | | : | | or . | | | : +--|---|---+----v-----+----v-----+----:-----+--|----.--+----|-----+ : | | | | DV Translate S/W | : | . | | : | | | +----.----------|-----+ : | . | | : | +===|========.==========+==========:========+====.=======+ | :,,,,,,,,|,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,: . | | DV | . . | +------|--------.-----------------------------------.-------------+ | +========.===================================.================<< | .....................................................>> | Network | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | DOS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ 0K Is this clear? :-) The bottom line(s): 1. Your PC is an X server. 2. You can do everything you can do under DV (i.e., multitask) 3. Output from DOS apps. are translated to X protocols (on the fly) therefore you can think of a DOS app as an X client 4. With the DV/X toolkit you can write X clients for the PC that can use any server on the net. To me, this sounds like a great product. The only issues are: Performance Price Compatibility (display hardware / network {hard,soft}ware ) Quarterdeck expects this out Q4 1990. I'd give them a call ask ask them to send the above mentioned doc. It's 45 pages and *extremely* informative. (Quarterdeck -- 213 392-9701) Robert Disclaimer: I don't work for Quarterdeck, I just read their literature. -- | Robert L. Howard | Georgia Tech Research Institute | | rhoward@msd.gatech.edu | MATD Laboratory | | (404) 528-7165 | Atlanta, Georgia 30332 | | UUCP: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!msd!rhoward |