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From: borg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.w.meeks)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Suntools vs. Xwindows
Message-ID: <1562@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 89 13:04:55 GMT
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Reply-To: borg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (daniel.w.meeks)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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>Reply-To: gors@well.UUCP (Gordon Stewart)
>Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
>...
>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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XView is NOT ``merged'' X and Sunview. XView is a X toolkit which looks
much like Sunview. Sun is merging X and NeWS.

cheers, --dwm