RE: tlug: X Windows client

["Michael Chiu" <mchiu@example.com>]

>The standard X server for MS Windows was  eXceed from hummingbird
>software the last time I looked at a Windows machine, though
>this was a while ago.  My wife still uses it and it is awesome.
>I think it is around 100,000 yen.  She is one of the last people
>I know still clinging to her legacy Win95/NT systems due to
>her hyper-dependency on Excel.


Wow... talk about expensive....
>
>Probably the best thing to do is follow the trend, save the
>100,000 yen, and turn the Windows box into a Linux X terminal
>for free.    ;-)
>

you're probably right, but I think it will cost me about 100,000 yen to get
the parts to build another machine to install Linux onto... not only that,
but I think the trend is moving more towards M$ Windows as can be seen with
the amount of software available for Windows platform compared to the
Linux/X-Windows platform... :(

Mikio

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