How to choose a new 386 UNIX PC...

[Jim Frost]

In article <649 at visdc.UUCP> jiii at visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III) writes:
|In article <4635 at ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer at ursa-major.spdcc.COM
|(Steve Dyer) writes:
|> IBM sells "X Windows for DOS" and Locus sells what I believe to be the
|> same product, PC/Xsight. ...  I believe you are limited to what you
|> can do in 640K, but I could be wrong.

Doesn't matter.  The product is too slow to use unless you have a 386
or very fast 286.  The demo that IBM had at Usenix ran so slow that I
couldn't handle it (and I've used the Sun 386i 8 bit-plane for
heavy-duty X).  Not recommended.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd at std.com