[mod.std.unix] X3 display committee

std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (10/26/86)

From: nike!ll-xn!mit-amt!mit-eddie!frog!jim (Jim Isaak, IEEE P1003 Chair)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 86 20:33:40 EDT

For general information, an X3 committee has been formed to deal with
standards for display management.  This includes windowing controls.
It is chaired by John Butler of Microsoft.  Datamation reports that they
are developing a model based on MS/Windows rather than X.WINDOWS or
Sun's NeW(e)s(t) suggestions.  It is not clear how this might related
to 1003 and/or other standards.


Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 82

std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (10/28/86)

From: ulowell!grinstei%wanginst.UUCP@harvard.HARVARD.EDU 
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 86 12:58:07 EST

Actually the committee is not developing a model based on any window
system but is building a model that will support current and future
window management system.  Sun, DEC/MIT (Project Athena = X), Microsoft,
Apollo and many other window supporters/developers/implementors are actively
participating on X3H3.6;  we would greatly appreciate more help and 
participation as this is a sizeable task.

Georges Grinstein
Director Graphics Research Lab

( Chair X3H3.6 )

Volume-Number: Volume 8, Number 5