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 REQUIRED DATE- OPEN          USER PRIORITY WEIGHT-  59    RANKING-  0038
 DATE RECEIVED- MAY 05, 1997  REQUEST STANDING  - REVIEW   AS OF- JUL 14, 1997
                              TYPE- NEW DEVELOP

 DESCRIPTION-

        In today's network centric world (IBM definition) it is
        terrible you need a monitor attached to the physical
        computer to see its output.  Instead, it would be much
        better to have the possibility to read the output on a
        remote terminal, like an X terminal.  This needs a review
        of the OS/2 GUI low level interface, but should be possible
        in such a way the current programs don't even know this.
        OS/2 layer GUI is powerful enough to support this feature.

        ATTRIBUTES:

        HIGH Value
        Desired NEXT full release

        BENEFIT$

        I am working inside HEP community and I have found out people
        look for an alternative to Unix.  WinNT is for now thought
        as the best alternative, but the impossibility to have a remote
        display limits its use.  The availability of such an
        improvement in OS/2 would make it the better solution for
        large environments, where a PC is used also as a server, not
        only as a client.

        Submitted by:

        Sfiligoi Igor
        Udine, Italy
        Universita' degli studi di Udine
        sfiligoi@udalf2.fisica.uniud.it

        SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT:
        July 11, 1997

        IBM already has a TCP/IP stack included with OS/2 Warp 3 Connect
        or OS/2 Warp 4 Merlin, and an X-Windows option is available.  A
        TCP/IP stack for existing Warp 3 users should  be made available
        FREE OF CHARGE, with the X-Windows set of libraries being also
        FREE OF CHARGE for all users.  X-Windows support should ship
        with EVERY copy of Warp, as an option on the CD installation
        (there is space).  Users should have the option of installing
        it, for a University like us, the support for integral TCP/IP
        and X-Windows would be a very strong factor for using OS/2 more
        widely.  This is not just a request for freebies, OS/2 Warp was
        strongly considered at our university, but rejected due to the
        additional cost of the TCP/IP stack which became effectively
        free when OS/2 Warp Connect was released.  The X-Windows support
        is a factor to change that now.

        Richard Turner
        UNIX Systems Manager
        University of Teesside
        Computing & Mathematics
        Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England, UK  TS1 3BA
        R.J.Turner@tees.ac.uk

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