Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 17:10:47 -0300 (GMT-0300)
From: Roberto Alsina <ralsina AT ultra7 DOT unl DOT edu DOT ar>
To: Dennis Janssen <nessnaj AT worldonline DOT nl>
cc: OpenDOS Mailing List <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: X-Windows
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, Dennis Janssen wrote:

> > And X *is* useful. And X has a free implementation that could be ported 
> > to DOS.
> 
> On simtelnet in /msdos/xwindows there is a shareware X-Windows. 
> 
> However the one time I tried to install it, it destroyed my bios-settings
> in CMOS. Nothing that couldn't be fixed, but I was not amused.

Weird, I have used it without problems before...
It's a port of XFree86 to DOS, an example of what could be done. But to 
have DOS X clients a multitasking API should be developed.

Is the taskmgr API adequate?

>      Dennis!


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