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From: vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller)
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Subject: Re: X device dependant modules for DECstation-5000/200PX
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Date: 17 Jul 90 23:32:20 GMT
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In article <13218@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
(George Robbins) writes:
|> In article <10443@lindy.Stanford.EDU> vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince
Fuller) writes:
|> > 
|> > Are there any plans to make the device dependant portions of the
DECwindows
|> > X11R3 server for the DS5000 with 2D accelerator available? I've
become spoiled
|> > by X11R4 on a DS3100 and would like to run it on a new 5000PX system.
|> 
|> I don't know what DEC has planned in this regard, but you should be able to
|> run most of the X11R4 utilities and X11R4 based applications using the DEC
|> supplied server, even if it is still based on X11R3 (or whatever).  We do
|> this now using UWS2.0 and a few X11R4 utilities and twm.
|> 
|> -- 
|> George Robbins - now working for,     uucp:  
{uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
|> but no way officially representing:   domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com
|> Commodore, Engineering Department     phone:  215-431-9349 (only by
moonlite)

That's sort of what I thought, too, until I started running into trouble with
X11R4 applications and the DECWindows 4.0 server. For example, the program that
I'm typing at right now (xrn) doesn't work quite right - there's no cursor, 
which makes it tough to keep track of the current place in the ariticle or
newsgroup list, not to mention typing articles to post (R4 xterm's also seem 
to occaisionally lose the cursor...) Also, I'm not thrilled by the the thought
of a server bloated by Display PostScript support, since I don't have a whole
lot of need for Display PostScript at the moment.

	Thanks,
	--Vince