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From: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Suntools vs. Xwindows
Message-ID: <12536@well.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jul 89 16:15:55 GMT
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Reply-To: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Suntools is a true event-driven winowing/User interface system,
which uses a notification scheme based on SIGNALS.  

The comments about X being brain-damaged are because it is occasionally
imposible to tell who or what caused a certain event -- Its design goals
of network transparency and low network loading were a trade-off.

Neither is a RENDERING system -- Sun supports CGI and GKS, and I am
not qualified to say, but I suppose there are X-based GKS and other
rendering systems.


A note about future compatibility of Suntools and X -- t'ain't so. 
SunViews and X will be "merged", but many of the low-level calls
and operations on pixrects will no longer be supported in the same
way.  In short, there is no such thing as endless upward compatibility.
But, hey, that's progress. If you've seen one redwood, ... :-)
:-)
:-)
:-(

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