Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!orca.dsd.es.com!es.com!bpendlet From: bpendlet@es.com (Bob Pendleton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Silicon Graphics hardware, Motif, and PEX Message-ID: <1990Dec18.214028.19581@dsd.es.com> Date: 18 Dec 90 21:40:28 GMT References: Sender: news@dsd.es.com Reply-To: bpendlet@es.com (Bob Pendleton) Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT Lines: 26 In article , JOHNSTON%NRCMTC.NRC.CA@VM.NRC.CA (Dan Johnston) writes: |> I don't have my machine yet and already I have lots of catalogues that |> list several 3D packages, PEX is available from SGI (they call it |> "FIGARO" for some reason). Ho boy... FIGARO is not PEX. FIGARO is a commercial 3rd party PHIGS like package. PHIGS or even FIGARO in a window is not PEX. If it doesn't work through the PEX protocol it isn't PEX. If it's PEX you can run your PEX client on a different machine and display it on your machine through a network connection. Just like you can run your X clients over your network. If your FIGARO client has to run on the same processor that your display is attached to, you aren't running PEX. Of course it is possible that they are using a version of FIGARO that uses the PEX protocol to communicate with the X/PEX server. If that's the case please let me know. Bob Pendleton, speaking only for myself. bpendlet@dsd.es.com or decwrl!esunix!bpendlet or utah-cs!esunix!bpendlet X: Tools, not rules.