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From: sierch@well.UUCP (Michael Sierchio)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Mixing window system and graphics operations
Message-ID: <6300@well.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 18:47:13 GMT
References: <3648@briar.Philips.Com>
Reply-To: sierch@well.UUCP (Michael Sierchio)
Organization: Small Systems Solutions
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It seems to me, and has for some time, that one of the major defects of
PHIGS and GKS, etc. is that they provide the user interface support that
they do -- they simply aren't designed for multi-taking workstations in
which the input and output focus are the responsibility of a special
process (the Notifier, etc).  They were designed for plotters, dumb
serial graphics terminals, and film-recorders.

As we move into Network Windowing Systems on cheaper and faster wk-stations,
these annoying vestiges make life difficult -- why use PHIGS's hierarchical
database when your LAN offers a realtional engine (hardware, etc)??? Why
use GKS when all you want is to render a metafile image in a window under
X11???

-- 
	Michael Sierchio @ Small Systems Solutions

	sierch@well.UUCP
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