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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DECWindows vs XWindows
Message-ID: <1651@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 5 Aug 89 17:21:18 GMT
References: <1391@draken.nada.kth.se>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <1391@draken.nada.kth.se> ulfis@nada.kth.se (Anders Ulfheden) writes:
>
>Is there anybody out there who can explain the main difference between
>DECWindows and XWindows??

DECwindows is the name of Digital's product version of X.  It includes
servers, Xlib, the Xt intrinsics, the XUI toolkit, and applications.

>So far I have been able to note that DECWindows calls differ from XWindows
>calls in some functions

Nope.

>, and that you can run XWindow-programs in a
>DECWindows environment, but not the other way. Am I right, or am I right?

You're not right.  We run DECwindows applications on non-DEC servers all
the time for interoperability testing.  The only real problem is that some
of the programs don't react very gracefully to not finding the fonts they
want; we're working on this.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente