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From: dlleigh@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Darren Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: NeWS for the amiga
Summary: winterp or roll your own
Message-ID: <1577@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Feb 90 05:33:51 GMT
References: <1290@jtsv16.UUCP> <5164@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <MWM.90Feb8135438@raven.pa.dec.com>
Reply-To: dlleigh@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Darren Leigh)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <MWM.90Feb8135438@raven.pa.dec.com> mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Under Construction) Meyer) writes:
>>> People wanting a network windowing system on the Amiga should check out 
>>> the X11 offering by GfxBase.
>
>What should those of us who want a server with a spiffy interpretive
>interface (ala Postscript & psh) do, then?

You could use the "Winterp" widgit interpreter in combination with
X11.  Winterp is based on xlisp and provides interpretive access to X
widgits and most (all?) of Xlib.  Depending on exactly how you want
this set up, it could be easy or hard, i.e. porting it to run
completely on the Amy would be the worst case.  If you're just going
to use the the Amy as a display server this would be trivial.

If you don't like X you could roll your own windowing system.  I've
been toying with the idea of re-writing Postscript with scheme to use
as the base graphics language for a new interpretive
network-transparent windowing system.  Face it, X sucks.  NeWS costs
money and has its own problems.  Be creative.

Darren Leigh
dlleigh@media-lab.media.mit.edu