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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: x on pc
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Date: 14 May 89 15:26:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: <340002@hpnmdla.HP.COM>

In article <340002@hpnmdla.HP.COM>, waynec@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Wayne Cannon) writes:
}I think everyone has missed R. Alan Johnson's point (or else I did).  It
}sure seems to me that you could have a windowing/graphics library with
}the same interface as Xlib running under a single-tasking DOS such that
}the same client code could be compiled and run in the DOS environment
}and also in a true X environment.  It would certainly have to be
}restricted to a single functional window at a time as MS-Windows 286 and
}Quarterdeck's windowing system have done.

Whaddaya mean, "single functional window"?  There's no problem writing programs
for Quarterdeck's DESQview that use multiple windows simultaneously, even
interleaving I/O to multiple windows, some or all of which may be at least
partially obscured.  I imagine MS-Windows is the same.
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