* Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 17 19:55 -0500]: > Nate Bargmann wrote: >> >> I recall there was Desqview X out about that time. I'm not sure if it >> had much to do with the X we now know and love. > > Yes, it did. It really wasn't Desqview at all, it was a program to turn > you PC into an X terminal. I think it flopped as a product.
I suppose, then, that it required a host running X programs to display on the PC based terminal much (or exactly) like remote X clients now. I guess they figured "cheap" PC hardware would make a good X terminal. > And when Win 3.0 came out, Desqview was dead, dead, dead. R.I.P. I was running a VGA monitor and card at the time and it took me some time to get used to the idea of "windows". I still prefered a full screen DOS program even though Desqview handled them quite well as I recall. At least as well as a PC XT clone could handle running two or more programs at once. I bought an "upgrade" copy of Win 3.1 in '93--fifteen years ago, wow--and slowly aclimated to the idea of mutliple windows on the screen which are now second nature, of course. I guess the pretty colors and "fancy" graphics made it somewhat appealing. The Free Software desktop is a true culmination of all those that have gone before. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
