Norcross, Georgia-based Dickens Data Systems Inc has got together with Qume Peripherals Corp and Sherwood Inc to form the Windowing Interface Xchange association or WIX. Their aim is to define protocols that will enable users to get existing X Window applications within their organisation up on serially-connected, character-based systems without the expense of having to buy new equipment and Ethernet cabling. WIX says its protocol enables both the X Window client and server to run on the host, rather than requiring the X server to run on the desktop machine. WIX says there are already ASCII/ANSI terminals which conform to the standard and can run X applications while being connected to a multi-user host via a serial line rather than via Ethernet cabling that such a configuration would usually require. Qume says its QX15 terminal is already WIX-compliant. Associate WIX membership costs $1,000 a year, voting membership is $3,000. Executive director is Dickens Data product manager Barry Hogwood.
