jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) (12/22/90)
I'm not sure where to put this posting, in Desqview, in X, or MSDOS programmer. Since I read this board all the time, I'm posting it here. Has anyone seen that little 20+ page pamphlet by Quarterdeck in the lastest Dr. Dobbs? It seems that the X-windowing Desqview is gonna be REAL nice....it looked VERY impressive. Has anyone heard anything about this thing? Right now it's still vaporware, but it look s quite promising. Brian
berggren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren) (12/28/90)
jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes: >I'm not sure where to put this posting, in Desqview, in X, or MSDOS >programmer. Since I read this board all the time, I'm posting it here. >Has anyone seen that little 20+ page pamphlet by Quarterdeck in the >lastest Dr. Dobbs? It seems that the X-windowing Desqview is gonna >be REAL nice....it looked VERY impressive. Has anyone heard anything >about this thing? Right now it's still vaporware, but it look s quite >promising. It's much farther than vaporware. It's scheduled to be released early next year. Only things I know so far are that : 1) TCP/IP and Novell Netware support 2) Runs X11r3 (don't quote me on this!) 3) Allows X applications to be run locally (under MS-DOS) 4) EGA+ required 5) lotsa memory required I have no idea how much this beast is going to cost; I'm not even going to worry about it for a while until at least the second release. ( version 1.x of ANYTHING is always buggy; yes it is written down somehwrere!) Any other new info. would be appreciated... ============================================================================== "Round and round the while() loop goes; Whether it stops," Turing says, "nobody knows."
jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) (12/29/90)
Well, looking at the little booklet they gave me, it says that Desqview/X will multitask real-mode, 16-bit protected, adn 32-bit protected mode software. It supports X11, and has a Desqview Window Manager, OSF/Motif Window Manager, and Open Look window manager available, soon to be followed by a TAB Window Manager and XVT.... I don't know what kind of machine or hardware requirements are, but it seems pretty lean compared to Windows 3.0 (bleh). I just wish I knew more about pricing, what is the advantages and disadvantages of writing for Desqview/X, etc. It would be nice to find out that Desqview/X code was completely portable to all X machines. Brian
bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright) (12/30/90)
In article <26096@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes: > Well, looking at the little booklet they gave me, it says that Desqview/X > will multitask real-mode, 16-bit protected, adn 32-bit protected mode > software. It supports X11, and has a Desqview Window Manager, OSF/Motif > Window Manager, and Open Look window manager available, soon to be > followed by a TAB Window Manager and XVT.... > > I don't know what kind of machine or hardware requirements are, but it seems > pretty lean compared to Windows 3.0 (bleh). I just wish I knew more about > pricing, what is the advantages and disadvantages of writing for Desqview/X, > etc. It would be nice to find out that Desqview/X code was completely > portable to all X machines. Well-written X code is reasonably portable to other X machines (modulo bugs in the vendor's version of X). You don't get binary compatibility (but I don't think anyone would expect that given the number of different machines that are running X, and without some of the postcompilation tools that are still more-or-less on the wish list rather than actual, widely-available products). It's certainly possible to write _very_ portable code on X, but it's also possible to write very UNportable code. Given the number of different X implementations, there's just no way that you could get _complete_ portability (even at the source code level) unless the application was well-written to start with. Sort of like Unix in general ... Bruce C. Wright