> > > > Anyone want to make an X-server for GFX9000? Now that would be cool...
> > >
> > > If you are referring to a VT100 terminal,
> >
> > There still is a slight difference between X and VT100 :-)
> > X is a graphic environment - like the Win9x desktop, but much more
> > flexible...
>
> Oh, you mean X-windows?
Sort of. An X-server is a program that can display graphics generated by
programs that can also run on X-WIndows. I think you can see X-WIndows as a
'local' X-server. Another X-server is Xwin32. This is an X-server for
Micro$oft Windows. It enables you to use graphical X-windows programs on a pc.
Don't get me wrong: the programs itself still run on a Unix machine, but the
graphics are displayed on the pc (via the X-server). That is possible, since
the X-Windows system is merely a standard. SO Xwin32 is just doing what it
should do according to the standard.
So you can write X-servers for any platform! Cool huh!
> I get it. There also was something else with X in it on Unix (Unix itself?
> :)), which looked like telnet, and I bet it also supported ANSI.
You are talking about 'xterms'. This is merely a terminal emulator for The
X-Window system. Yes, emulator. (I hope you know what a terminal is! (You
know, but for the people who don't: a terminal is a screen + keyboard. You can
use it to see data displayed by a computer and you can even input data, so the
computer can do something with it! In M$ Windows, you can compare this a bit
to a DOS box....))
For more questions about these topics, mail me in private...
Grtjs, Manuel ((m)ICQ UIN 41947405)
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