Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unsvax!jimi!herbert!doug
From: doug@herbert.uucp (Doug Phillipson 5-0134)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-extensions on X terminals?
Message-ID: <1990Jan13.213631.6220@herbert.uucp>
Date: 13 Jan 90 21:36:31 GMT
References: <4819@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Reply-To: doug@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Doug Phillipson 5-0134)
Organization: EG&G, Energy Measurements
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In article <4819@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>What is the expectation on how X terminals will fair amoung
>vendors that use extensions to the X protocol. For example,
>DEC seems to be featuring Display Postscript as an extension.
>Will DEC applications that need this require the capability
>in the server, or will it fall back to a host based process
>to translate the extension for basic X servers (say for an
>X terminal).

	You mean to tell me that after all the wars over X and NeWS
DEC will include what should have (and could have if politics were not involved)
been included as a standard feature. Looks like SUN really won anyway but
all the competing parties are to embarrassed to admit it.

Douglas Phillipson (EG&G)