Re: X-Windows and PCs

[James McLean <jmclean@CHEM.UCSD.EDU>]

"Kenneth J. Morgan" wrote:
> ... What I'd like to know
> is whether there is any software that would allow me to run UNIX X-Windows
> programs remotely at home from Windows 95 over a modem connetion? Even
> better, shareware? Money is an object!

There is a freeware X server (remember, in X terminology the server is
on the local computer) available at
<http://tnt.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/>.  They have both a
Windows and a Mac version.  I have used it quite happily with a direct
ethernet connection.

When I tried using this over a 14.4 kbps modem with a PPP connection,
the result was excruciatingly slow.  My guess was that this is something
intrinsic to X windows.  But it might well have been my not-so-new
computer; give it a shot.

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--James McLean
jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu
post doc, UC San Diego, Chemistry
moving to SUNY Geneseo Physics this fall