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From: osmoviita@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Statement of Direction - IRIX 4.0
Message-ID: <4195.2763c5cb@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 10 Dec 90 17:28:43 GMT
References: <1990Dec8.160035.12417@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <1990Dec8.160035.12417@odin.corp.sgi.com>, karlton@sgi.com (Phil Karlton) writes:
> 		Statement of Direction - IRIX 4.0
> 
> With release 4.0 of IRIX, SGI will be providing a native implementation
> of X11 Release 4, Motif 1.1 with an enhanced Motif window manager,
.. 
> The value-added features available through this integration include the
> ability to have an arbitrary hierarchy of X and GL windows including
> those windows associated with buttons, sliders and other widgets, to
> see the full color capabilities of X11 R4, to use the Motif toolkit
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   

Will this say that we are finally going to see full 48bit RGB output in 
hardware too? (16 bit integers for each primary -- 16 bit DACs.)