Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!orca!undies!pmartz From: pmartz@undies.dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: PEX Information Wanted Message-ID: <1991Feb28.182621.19253@dsd.es.com> Date: 28 Feb 91 18:26:21 GMT References: Sender: usenet@dsd.es.com Reply-To: pmartz@undies.dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT Lines: 40 Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.187.85.56 In article , amir@pilat.Israel.Silvaco.COM (Amir J. Katz) writes: > Hi Everybody, > > This is regarding PEX, (PHIGS Extension to X): > 1. What is the status of it? The current PEX protocol is 5.0P, and there will eventually be a 6.0. Sun Microsystems' contract with MIT to develop a PEX Sample Implementation has recently ended. The PEX-SI is based on the 5.0P protocol, and should be shipped with the X11R5 tapes. > 2. Is it available publicly or commercially? University of Illinois has produced their own PEX implementation, based on a less-recent version of the protocol. It is ftp-able from somewhere, I don't have the details. The official PEX-SI mentioned above will be publicly available just like X. Many comercial companies have PEX-savvy X servers, and supply PEX-based PHIGS libraries; Digital Equipment and Evans & Sutherland are two of them, and there are probably others. > 3. Has anyone tried to use it? Oh yes. PEX is a reality. E&S has developed or ported several applications to our PHIGS/PEX implementation. (I worked in the applications porting group for the past year and did alot of this work myself.) > -- Thanks, > > Amir J. Katz, System Manager > > E-mail: amir@taux01.nsc.com > Phone: +972 52-570713 > Fax: +972 52-570719 > Snail-mail: Amir J. Katz, Silvaco Israel Ltd. > 19 Maskit St., Herzelia, Israel -- -paul pmartz@dsd.es.com