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From: davew@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Dave_Waller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: TPS on HP [was: Re: hp-ux 7.0 recall?]
Message-ID: <1320033@hp-ptp.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 17:22:39 GMT
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ian@io.UUCP (Ian Poynter) writes:
> In article <11584@venera.isi.edu> raveling@isi.edu (Paul Raveling) writes:
> >
> >	BTW, it was mildly shocking to find that the 1st Interleaf
> >	TPS product for HP's requires Starbase.
> >
> >Paul Raveling
> >Raveling@isi.edu
> 
> This is not strictly true, although TPS does *use* Starbase (for full screen
> support without X) we do not require all of Starbase to be loaded in order
> for TPS to run.  We have recently loaded an HP-UX 7.0 system and tested
> this out by not loading the "graphics" file set.  Note that we are just
> finishing qualifying TPS 4.0 with HP-UX 7.0, and we will be making an
> official statement that we support 7.0 sometime soon.
> 
> TPS 4.0 also runs on the HP under X windows by using the "-w" option,
> although this obviously requires the X11 file set to be loaded.

However, TPS under X-windows *is* using Starbase compatibility mode,
therefore when running TPS under X, the window cannot be sent to a remote
client. In other words, the window MUST run on graphical hardware that
is in the same physical machine that the TPS software is running on.

In discussing this with some folks from Interleaf, the reason cited was
performance -- much, much better performance can be achieved implementing
the blitting algorithms directly to display h/w rather than going
through X libraries.

> 
> Ian
> -- 
> Ian Poynter		ian@ileaf.com
> Interleaf, Inc.
> ----------

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