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From: jbb@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Jim B. Byers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re: Spice on HP 9000 & X11 Graphics
Message-ID: <100920094@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 89 17:23:14 GMT
References: <100920093@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>Does anyone at HP know when R3
>support will be available?  Vendors with 3 letter names are promising it :-)
>
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>Tony Burzio               * Happiness is a TurboSRX...
>Martin Marietta Labs      *
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As you may know , HP began shipping a X11 product before the R3 tape was
out.  Therefore the HP-UX 6.2 and 6.5 products are based on R2 specs.
It does incorporate most of the R3 bug fixes however and features such as
backing store.  It is a  R2+ or R3- server depending on how you look at it.
Generally this has not been a problem for most people as most clients allow
users to specify fonts etc.  Judging from your response on the Spice 
questions you have found an R3 feature that is required by your application.

The release of X11 that will be released with HP-UX 7.0 (fall 1989) will
provide the following:
	R3 server
	R3 Xlib
	Motif window manager (mwm) - surpisingly hpwm-like :-)
	Motif toolkit
		Motif widget  - the look and behavior is surpisingly like 
				HP  widgets :-)
		R3 Xt intrinsics (with bug fixes)


I hope that this helps.

Jim Byers
CIS Marketing/Lab Team
Corvallis Information Systems

This code is very far along.  We are in testing mode to wring out bugs so that
you don't have to.  But schedules are schedules.   Use this information
with care.