x-window on pc
jim frost
madd at world.std.com
Sun Nov 12 04:52:20 AEST 1989
simnet at ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark R Poulson) writes:
>I'm looking for ways to develop X-Windows application software and run it on
>an IBM PC or compatible (possibly under the Xenix OS). My final product
>should also need to be portable e.g. to a SUN. Any idea or comment will be
>greatly appreciated.
Well-written X applications are highly portable, so that shouldn't be
a major problem. If you make use of UNIX-flavor-dependent functions,
such as tty control, it's a little harder. This kind of thing is
generally unnecessary under X.
If you want to do this, I recommend using Interactive Systems Corp's
386/ix instead of Xenix. They have the best 386 X windows I've ever
seen, period. ESIX's X had poor performance relative to Interactive
even though they were running on exactly the same hardware. Xenix,
last I heard, was still R2. Xenix also uses the flaky Microsoft
compiler. Pcc isn't great but it's fairly reliable.
If you want to write X applications on a 8086 or 80286 machine, good
luck. There are fairly useful servers that run on those machines but
no good systems to run servers and clients.
jim frost
software tool & die "The World" Public Access Unix for the '90s
madd at std.com +1 617-739-WRLD 24hrs {3,12,24}00bps
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