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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Uses for an XT ????
Date: 24 Mar 1997 19:49:11 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Chooka
wrote on 25 Mar (in article <333679BB.41C67EA6@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>):
>> Correction: Your XTs will be the Xservers...
=Ah....I must be confused :)
=An XT is based on the 8086 and so cannot run FreeBSD and therfore
=XFree86. Hence it would be impossible to set the XT up as an X server.
=Correct ?
Only for the first part. Second part: "No FreeBSD -> No XFree86"
is obviously wrong -- XFree86 runs on a variety of platforms. The
third part: "No XFree86 -> No X-server" is wrong theoreticly --
there are other X-servers. Some of them, may run on 8086 (over DOS
or some other OS).
So, theoreticly you can set the XTs as X-servers (to be more
precise, to _RUN_ X-servers).
Setting them to run X-clients (also possible theoreticly), I thought
is not what you intended -- you want the applications to run on
the FreeBSD displaying on the XTs' screens, do not you?
-mi
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"Windows for dummies"