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From: ral@hydra.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Roger Lighty)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: printing at X terminals
Summary: workkstation protocol as higher level approach
Keywords: audio print serial input
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Date: 18 Jul 90 19:48:06 GMT
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In article <JANSSEN.90Jul17232251@holmes.parc.xerox.com> janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) writes:
> |>In article <63035B33DC3FC0AEAA@fccc.edu>STODOLA@FCCC.EDU(Bob Stodola)writes:
> |>   I agree.  I think support in the X-protocol for the "workstation" 
> |>  ...
>An interesting position.  But perhaps there should be a "workstation protocol",
...
>
>"When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail..."

I think this point has been made previously in the discussions about audio
<4840@crltrx.crl.dec.com> (Jim Gettys) and Input Device Extensions
<9006051941.AA01117@sol.uswest.com> (Bob Scheifler).  X is not an everything
protocol.  It may be proper to use the X model and build a larger protocol
of which X is the window statndard, 'H' is the audio standard, 'P' is
the print interface standard,....  These then all support the 'Y terminal'
protocol -- later replaced by Y(o). {:-{)}

Roger Lighty 				ral@hydra.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Lab.			(818) 354-3525
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