andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) (10/03/90)
In article <4d238f0b.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes: >>Hummingbird is in Ontario Canada and can be reached at (416)470-1207. > > When I called that number I got a modem carrier. Is it a real > company or is it "two guys in their basement"? The number above is their FAX number. Their VOX number is 416-470-1203. > So what's the story? What's out there for X on PC's? Thanks in > advance for any pointers. Since you have a 386 PC, you should be able to run X server and clients under UNIX. X is available for PCs running System V/386 from various vendors such as ISC, SCO, Everex,... I have only seen X server software for PCs running DOS. -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861
stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick ) (10/04/90)
In article <4d2d6d99.28499@apollo.HP.COM> nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes: > > > From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) > >>> So what's the story? What's out there for X on PC's? Thanks in >>> advance for any pointers. >> >>Since you have a 386 PC, you should be able to run X server and clients >>under UNIX. X is available for PCs running System V/386 from various >>vendors such as ISC, SCO, Everex,... I have only seen X server >>software for PCs running DOS. > > > But then I have to use UNIX. Not that I mind UNIX for certain > things, after all, it's the OS I use at work. But I use DOS > at home because I want to take advantage of the apps which are > available for DOS. > > [ And I hope nobody buys that horseshit about "DOS > compatibility mode" -- I have Windows 3.0 and Desqview > and neither one of them can run 80% of the DOS apps > I use regularly-- either because the ones I use do > graphics and take over the hardware, or because they > play games with DMA and IRQ's as with backup and other > utilities. I have no reason to assume that UNIX with > a DOS compatibility mode would do any better! ] > > So anyway I posted my question a week or so ago -- and is this > the consensus? That there currently IS no X client/server combo > for PC's running DOS except for the to-be-released QuarterDeck > product? Does anyone know anything about their product like > cost or system requirements? Thanks in advance. > > ---Peter The leaflet I have here, says DESQview X will run on an 8086 with 640K, but I think you will be EXTREMELY limited. You will probably do better on a 2-4MB 80386. (This is what they ran at their announcement). I don't know about cost, I will guess that it's going to be somewhere around $200-$250. Cheers! Steve -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- steve.resnick@f105.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG - or - apple!camphq!105!steve.resnick Flames, grammar errors, spelling errrors >/dev/nul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
unhd (Roger Gonzalez ) (10/04/90)
>Since you have a 386 PC, you should be able to run X server and clients >under UNIX. X is available for PCs running System V/386 from various >vendors such as ISC, SCO, Everex,... I have only seen X server >software for PCs running DOS. I just got the glossies for DESQview 386/X, which operates as both server and client. It looks great, but "until spring" it is still vaporware. -Roger -- "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra rg@unhd.unh.edu | UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory r_gonzalez@unhh.bitnet | Durham, NH 03824-3525
werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner) (10/07/90)
Back in the spring at PC Expo, they said October. Well, it's
October. Does anybody know whether its just a question of it not being
Bug-free yet, or whether they are just so overwhelmed getting the DPMI
compatible version of Desqview-386 out (5.1/2.3) that they are waiting
for the dust to settle?
--
Craig Werner (future MD/PhD, 5.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
(1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
"Doonesbury is more important than self-respect."