shino@anasaz.UUCP (Rei Shinozuka) (03/28/89)
I am working on a project that will involve utilizing a window-based user interface. This interface will be text only and will not require a mouse. Most of the user input will be forms. The application will have to run on MSDOS machines communicating with a UNIX box (pyramid). The MSDOS will probably someday become a UNIX 386 box. The PC will serve as the user interface engine, the big UNIX box will be the database server. Is X windows overkill for this situation? Can the server run on an MSDOS machine? Are there good commercial implementations? If X windows is overkill, are there any packages that at least provide the user interface window primitives that are compatible with Xlib? Or am I better going to one of the hundreds of "ZZYZX windows" packages that run on the PC? I'm paranoid about buying into some fly-by-night incompatible "window system" on MSDOS and paying for it later by feature limitations, non-portability, bad design. Being a UNIX guy, I'm used to going with standards; my impression of MSDOS is that most software is written & designed by three guys in a garage. (Not the same 3 guys, of course.) thanks in advance, -rei