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From: jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Is DESQview/X released yet ?
Message-ID: <4735@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 91 18:17:58 GMT
References: <19559023@1991Mar16.130925.3902@ericsson.s> <140700039@cdp>
Reply-To: jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <140700039@cdp> dyurman@cdp.UUCP writes:

>Well, actually I think Quarterdeck Office Systems has the right
>idea and that is to merge access to local personal productivity
>software on your PC, in a multi-tasking environment, with the
>X-Windows client / server relationship to remote hosts across a
>network.  I am still astonished that Microsoft did NOT do with
>with Windows.

Microsoft hasn't done anything innovative in a long time.  Lately, most
of their products have been knee-jerk reactions to other products, i.e.
DOS 5.0 vs DR DOS 5.0.


P.S.  Nobody in the X world will take you seriously if you call it
      "X Windows".  The correct name for the system is "X Window".



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