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From: scottr@plexus.com (Scott Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Need Recommendations on hardware for NETBSD as a file server
Date: 17 May 1994 20:14:08 GMT
Organization: Plexus Corporation - Neenah, WI
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In article <michaelv.769097124@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>, michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) says:
>
>In <Cpvus3.F3w@maunakea.Data-IO.COM> jgray@Data-IO.COM (Jerrold Gray) writes:
>>
>>   4.  What type of PC software is available for Xserver/client sessions.
>
>The only X-client packages I know of for DOS are commercial, though
>they've come down in price a lot.  The *only* X-server package for DOS
>would be DesqView/X by QuarterDeck (the QEMM people).

Well, that last isn't entirely true.  If you include Windows-based X servers,
there is one called eXceed (but I'm hard pressed to remember the author/
distributor at the moment).  It supports several modes of operation,
including being managed with XDMCP as an X terminal.

I'd rather use XFree86, though.

--
scott reynolds
scottr@plexus.com