Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!klipper!fons
From: fons@cs.vu.nl (Fons Botman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: X windows
Message-ID: <984@klipper.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 3 Feb 88 12:14:18 GMT
References: <8801291618.AA04044@siemens.siemens.com>
Reply-To: fons@cs.vu.nl (Fons Botman)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <8801291618.AA04044@siemens.siemens.com> steve@siemens (Steve Clark) writes:
>Is anyone out there doing any work with X windows?  I would like to develop
>on the Xerox machine in Common Lisp, and then port to some other as yet
>unspecified machine that supports CL and X.  It seems that an X emulation
>package is the kind of thing someone ought to have done already or at least
>it should be in progress.  If not, I may have to do it myself.

With the risk of starting a "holy" war:

The same for NeWS, though the amount of work is perhaps somewhat greater:
writing a postscript-like interpreter and doing the keyboard handling.

							Fons Botman