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From: jit@SLIC.CELLBIO.DUKE.EDU (Jit Keong Tan)
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Subject: Re: Second Graphics Console
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Date: 29 Jan 91 14:05:07 GMT
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portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) said:

> You cannot run WorkSpace anywhere else except the graphics console of
> the IRIS.  It uses the Graphics Library for all of its imaging.  It
> was also my impression that the NeXT station supported Display
> PostScript, not NeWS.  It might be hard getting a NeWS application to
> run there.


> You can use an X terminal with an IRIS just as you would with any
> other computer system.

Does this imply that IRIX 4.0 will be able to handle a second console
because the window server will be X window and that NeWS will be
a client running on top of X window ?



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