Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!krk From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: 68040 for the Mac? Message-ID: <13344@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 7 Feb 91 12:57:02 GMT References: <4009@orbit.cts.com> Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Reply-To: krk@democretos.cs.purdue.edu (Kevin Kuehl) Organization: Purdue Univserity Computer Science Department Lines: 18 In article n67786@lehtori.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) writes: >X-windows is no more an imaging model than ascii is. X-windows describes >only the interfacing surface between an application and the window system. That's why Mike is right, it isn't an imaging model. :-) Actually X windows itself is really only a networking protocol. People just happen to provide clients with it that do usefull things. It describes how a client application is to communicate with the window manager server. If you compare it to the TCP/IP interface found on most BSD-Unix machines, you will find a lot more similarities than if you try to compare X to a model such as NeXTStep, GL, etc. I think that is usually where people fault X. They try to force it to be something it isn't. -- Kevin Kuehl krk@cs.purdue.edu kuehlkr@mentor.cc.purude.edu