On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:18:31AM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > There are some X terminal packages that will run on an XT. ... More appropriately, there are X server packages that run under DOS. (And before someone pops up with a correction, everything through Windows 3.x was just DOS with some eye candy.) BUT: > ... If I remember correctly, most of the X terminal programs ran on > top of DOS. Oh, but you so do NOT want to go there. Since DOS doesn't support TCP/IP, there was a horrible rats-nest of third-party TCP/IP suites that went with getting X to work. Some were better than others, but all were commercial (read: proprietary and liensed), and almost all were cranky and fragile by today's standards. This would not be a good thing to do to end users. And, as has been pointed out, all modern Unix/Linux versions require at least a 386. (I briefly used a version of Unix called "Venix" many moons ago--it ran on a 286 box, but had absolutely no memory protection. You don't want to know what that was like.) -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
