craig@polyslo.UUCP (Craig Anderson) (06/24/87)
Hello X-people,
I am trying to convince some administrative-types (and myself)
that XWindows (along with NFS, probably) would be capable of supporting
a large diverse set of workstations, compute servers, and disk servers
as a standard communications and user interface medium for distributing
computing resources. Can we place our clients on selected machines to
balance or distribute the computing load and maintain a uniform user
interface across workstations in an elegant manner? Would it be good
for semi-computer-literate types? (e.g. whats all this stuff about
meta-mouse buttons? Sounds questionable). Would XWindows not (yet)
work well for this application or am I being dense and I should RTFM
some more? Since we don't have any machines to run XWindows on yet,
I can't test it. Any better ideas that I'm too dense to see? Any of
your thoughts would be appreciated.
I would also like to build a list of current/planned XWindows
applications. I would appreciate anyone sending information (if it
doesn't violate your marketing agreements) on any major/important
software packages that run as XWindows clients. The information
desired is:
Package name:
Function: (a 1-2 sentence blurb)
Origin: (who wrote it or ported it)
Machine: (machines, op systems, and languages written for)
Status: (public domain, copyrighted but distributable,
licenced but cheap for universities <$300,
licenced proprietary >$300 but worth the $$, etc.)
I will summarize all interesting stuff back to the net.
If all this has been done before, please point me in
the right direction to find this info.
Thank you,
--Craig
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