X-windows under System V/386

[Franklin Reynolds]

In article <191 at cbw1.UUCP> brian at cbw1.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie) writes:
>In article <524 at pcrat.UUCP> rick at pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>>I mean, there are all these 80386 machines out here, with extended
>>EGAs or VGAs and color monitors.  Yet, the only X-windows I've seen
>>advertised requires new display hardware, and half again the cost
>>of an 80386 system.  How's that going to move the world?  Maybe
>>a few developers -- but what about my father-in-law???
>...
>
>Well, I think the reason you don't see a lot of X use on any of the standard
>PC hardware is size.  
>...

I have used window systems on Suns, Apollos, IBM PCs and Macs. It is true
that window systems are especially valuable on large screens but they are
also useful on systems with small screens.

Ultimately, the value on running X on your V/386 box will be access to X
based applications. Wordprocessors, spreadsheets, bitmap editors and drawing
programs that target X and UNIX should showing up by the end of this year
or the beginning of the next. These programs should be fairly portable and
the V/386 market would be much more appealing if X were a little more
available.

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