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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PC X Windows
Message-ID: <1016@redford.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 15:56:27 GMT
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Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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In article <A30E1F9C031F000198@HKPVC.BITNET> CS727713%HKPCC.HKP.HK@mitvma.mit.EDU ("Stephen Wong ", Hong Kong Poly. - Computing Dept.) writes:
[stuff about Desqview/X deleted]
>I can't see any XVT implementation for MSDOS, but by using a toolkit (such as
>XVT, Motif, etc.), it will not be too hard to port applications to different
>GUI.
First of all, there is an XVT implementation for DOS XVT/Win.  Second,
there is an XVT port planned for use by Desqview/X.  It will be based on
the Xlib toolkit, and will have the Open Look look and feel.  It is based
on Xlib because the intrinsics based toolkits (like Motif and OLIT) add
some overhead.  So for sake of efficiency they used just a Xlib XVT.
None of this is official.  It is not announced as far as I know.  

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