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From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Fri, 16 May 97 13:41:06 +0300
Subject: Re: X-Windows
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nuqneH,

> 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
[dd]
> 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?
>

No. Concurrent DOS multitasking is better!
..and i'd prefer Desqview and Desqview/X to replace taskmgr..

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