Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!m2c!ulowell!apollo!oj
From: oj@apollo.uucp (Ellis Oliver Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SR10 and me
Message-ID: <3a33ebe6.d5b2@apollo.uucp>
Date: 10 Feb 88 17:12:00 GMT
References: <8802090007.AA09431@ELI.CS.YALE.EDU>
Reply-To: oj@apollo.UUCP (Ellis Oliver Jones)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <8802090007.AA09431@ELI.CS.YALE.EDU> ferguson@BKNLVMS.BITNET writes:
>Is Apollo going to go all out Unix and the X Window System?

If what I'm assigned to is any indicator, the answer is yes, Apollo's
going to offer seamless support for the X Window System, in *addition*
to the graphics interfaces that we have been offering for a long time.

Are you asking whether Apollo is going to either abandon GMR and GPR, or
force them to work through X's network links?  I sure don't see
any sign of us doing that.  As Joe Bowbeer
explained in his talk at the X Window System
symposium last month, we're working on integrating X with
Apollo's existing graphics packages so they can coexist on
the same screen.  That is *not* the same
thing as layering the existing packages on top of X.

As you no doubt have noticed, it doesn't make sense,
performance-wise, to *force* GMR3d operations
(or GPR) to go through X. 

The graphics software group (in which I work) is working hard to offer
Apollo users more good choices, not fewer.  We're working
to add a top-quality X implementation to our graphics software
product line, not abandon the G?R packages or layer them on X.

>I'd really like to keep using GMR3D...
A lot of us here think we're going to be improving and extending
GMR3D for years to come.

Ollie Jones                          Disclaimer:  I donn't claim to represent
Graphics Software Engineer                        official Apollo positions or
Apollo                                            product plans.  I can only speak
                                                  for myself.