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From: deke@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: PHIGS functionality in X
Keywords: PHIGS, PEX
Message-ID: <2283@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 89 13:04:21 GMT
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Reply-To: deke@ee.rochester.edu (Dikran Kassabian)
Organization: URochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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Hello,

Several people here in the University of Rochester College of Engineering
are interested in using PHIGS for 3D modeling on their workstations.  For
various reasons, our preference would be to use X rather than other window
systems.  We have about 45 Sun3 and Sun4 workstations, a few MicroVAXen,
an RT or two, and some X-terminals.

I have X11R3, and have seen the PEX demo code and documents in the contrib
sources, but I'm looking to find out more.  I've spoken with Jeff Stevenson
of HP, and contacted SUN to find out the status of the PEX modifications to 
the SUN X server, but so far I'm finding out very little.

Can anyone comment on the options and/or time frames that apply here?  I'm
not necessarily looking for anything free.  I'd be glad to hear about
commercial software options, the plans for PEX in the next few version/revs
of X... anything that you think might be relevant.

Please respond by mail (I'll be away for the next week, and when I get back
your followups would probably have expired on my system).  I'll summarize
responses, so please don't send mail asking for information on what I find
out.  Thanks in advance.


      Deke Kassabian,   deke@ee.rochester.edu   or   ur-valhalla!deke
   Univ of Rochester, Dept of EE, Rochester, NY 14627     (+1 716-275-3106)