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From: jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: extension philosophy [was Re: audio servers]
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Date: 15 Mar 90 04:19:47 GMT
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You are missing the point.  Audio has nothing to do with allocating screen
resources.  Only minimal coordination is actually needed with X.
What is more, audio is a real time operation; it is very hard (read
essentially impossible) to make real time guarantees in X.

On grounds of keeping X from collapsing from over extension, therefore,
unless some stronger grounds than just "it is a convenient server lying
around",
the burden of proof is on people to show why it can't be done as a seperate
server.


Jim Gettys
Digital Equipment Corporation
Cambridge Research Laboratory