Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!sirius!jeremy From: jeremy@cs.ua.oz.au (Jeremy Webber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: SGI's migration to X Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 90 07:54:54 GMT References: <208@voodoo.UUCP> <90Aug30.200125edt.682@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <3320@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: news@ucs.adelaide.edu.au Organization: Digital Arts Film and Television Lines: 20 In-reply-to: slehar@cochlea.bu.edu's message of 4 Sep 90 14:59:33 GMT In article slehar@cochlea.bu.edu (Steve Lehar) writes: [lots of disparaging things about X] It seems to me that you are using the raw X library when perhaps it would be more appropriate to use the X Intrinsics library, and the Athena Widgets toolkit. What you are doing looks like the equivalent of writing all your SGI applications in raw Postscript, rather than using the GL. To the point made in the original article, I would be surprised if Silicon Graphics moved to X without porting the Graphics Library to run under a pure X server. I certainly see no reason why this couldn't be done. -jeremy -- -- Jeremy Webber ACSnet: jeremy@chook.ua.oz Digital Arts Film and Television, Internet: jeremy@chook.ua.oz.au 60 Hutt St, Adelaide 5001, Voicenet: +61 8 223 2430 Australia Papernet: +61 8 272 2774 (FAX)