RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (11/06/87)
Various people at MIT keep getting inundated with queries about everything and anything to do with X. Partly as a defensive measure, but also because it's a good idea and high time it happened, I would like to try to put together (and keep up to date) an X (Version 11) catalog. Here's the kinds of things I have in mind (the list is not meant to exclude anything in particular): 1. software 2. hardware 3. documentation 4. published articles, papers, books 5. consulting services 6. video instruction/training materials 7. speakers for hire 8. courses and tutorials 9. user groups and other meetings Whatever you've got (or expect to have), let me know about it. Give me a reasonably compact description of what it is, plus details like scheduled availability, price, how to order, phone/mail contact, etc. Commercial and non-commercial both. Send the information to rws@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu I will get it compiled, and will try to have it ready for the X Conference in January. I will also make it available via the xstuff mail daemon (so you don't see the commercialism unless you want to). (BTW, one of the most commonly asked questions is availability of an X server on 286+DOS. The other is for general overview and programmer's guide documentation. There's a killing to be made ...)
earle@JPLOPTO.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle) (11/12/87)
In article <871106144744.5.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> Robert Scheifler writes: >(BTW, one of the most commonly asked questions is availability of an X >server on 286+DOS. The other is for general overview and programmer's >guide documentation. There's a killing to be made ...) I've been wondering about this (286+DOS). Given that (a) Sun's PC-NFS Toolkit (1.0FCS) includes a complete implementation of the 4.2BSD socket library, and good old select(2) besides, and (b) there are companies that advertise in PC type magazines for high-res monitors for PC-AT's (I forget the name, but one offers a 19" 1600x1280!), what is there to keep one from being able to port the X server to such a setup (other than porting issues, like `What will Microsoft C V 4.0 hiccup on this time?' and `Gee, the whole world is not a VAX or RT/PC after all, right Toto?') ?? Taken a step further, what is to prevent running a server *and* clients on an 80386 based DOS box? I thought I heard that 386-based DOS PC's could do some sorta multitasking ... -- Greg Earle earle@jplopto.JPL.NASA.GOV S(*CENSORED*)t earle%jplopto@jpl-elroy.ARPA [aka:] Rockwell International earle%jplopto@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV Seal Beach, CA ...!cit-vax!elroy!smeagol!jplopto!earle