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From: davidh@dent.Berkeley.EDU (David S. Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Has X Won the Window Wars? (was Re: Is NeWS UseABLE?)
Keywords: NeWS shortcomings
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Date: 6 Sep 88 23:31:04 GMT
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> I have seen a number of articles that give X's shortcomings, but
> I can't think of one that gives NeWS's.  Can you give the NeWS
> limitations?


1.  No primitives for modifying colormaps.
2.  No support for plane masks on multi-plane devices.
3.  No support for interlocked tiling of filled regions.

				David Harrison
				UC Berkeley Electronics Research Lab
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