[comp.newprod] SCO licesnces Locus X-Window products

rosso@sco.UUCP (11/10/88)

                        SANTA CRUZ OPERATION LICENSES
                       LOCUS X WINDOW SYSTEM PRODUCTS

The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.  (SCO), has reached an agreement with Locus
Computing Corporation to license Locus' X Window System Version 11.2 products.
The agreement includes two products --SCO Xsight, a complete X Window System
product that will run on SCO XENIX 386, and PC Xsight, an X Window System
server product that enables DOS computers to utilize the same graphical
windowing interface as applications running on SCO Xsight.

SCO Xsight and PC Xsight based on Locus Computing Corporation's Xsight Window
System family help turn networked, stand-alone, and multiuser microcomputers
into high-performance, high-resolution, multitasking graphics workstations.
Both Locus products are based on the X Window System, originally developed at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and now accepted as the
industry-standard windowing system for technical workstations.

With SCO Xsight, users can easily invoke, visually monitor, and control
multiple concurrent SCO XENIX processes on one or any number of
network-controlled systems.  Additionally, because both SCO Xsight and PC
Xsight use the X Window System protocol, the application's graphical windowing
interface is accessible on the host SCO XENIX system or across the network on
either DOS or SCO XENIX machines.

SCO will begin shipping SCO Xsight and PC Xsight in the first quarter of 1989.

To use the Xsight products in a networked environment, TCP/IP software and
hardware will also be required.  The initial releases of SCO Xsight and PC
Xsight will include support for VGA, EGA, and Hercules graphics adapters.