[comp.sys.hp] R3 X11 for HP-UX - when?

jbb@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Jim B. Byers) (07/26/89)

>Does anyone at HP know when R3
>support will be available?  Vendors with 3 letter names are promising it :-)
>
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As you may know , HP began shipping a X11 product before the R3 tape was
out.  Therefore the HP-UX 6.2 and 6.5 products are based on R2 specs.
It does incorporate most of the R3 bug fixes however and features such as
backing store.  It is a  R2+ or R3- server depending on how you look at it.
Generally this has not been a problem for most people as most clients allow
users to specify fonts etc.  Judging from your response on the Spice 
questions you have found an R3 feature that is required by your application.

The release of X11 that will be released with HP-UX 7.0 (fall 1989) will
provide the following:
	R3 server
	R3 Xlib
	Motif window manager (mwm) - surpisingly hpwm-like :-)
	Motif toolkit
		Motif widget  - the look and behavior is surpisingly like 
				HP  widgets :-)
		R3 Xt intrinsics (with bug fixes)


I hope that this helps.

Jim Byers
CIS Marketing/Lab Team
Corvallis Information Systems

This code is very far along.  We are in testing mode to wring out bugs so that
you don't have to.  But schedules are schedules.   Use this information
with care.

rclark@speclab.bgp-usgs.gov (Roger N. Clark) (07/28/89)

> The release of X11 that will be released with HP-UX 7.0 (fall 1989) will
> provide the following:
> 	R3 server
> 	R3 Xlib
> 	Motif window manager (mwm) - surpisingly hpwm-like :-)
> 	Motif toolkit
> 		Motif widget  - the look and behavior is surpisingly like 
> 				HP  widgets :-)
> 		R3 Xt intrinsics (with bug fixes)
> 
> 
> I hope that this helps.

Sounds great.  How about for 800 series?

Roger N. Clark
..!speclab!rclark

rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason) (08/02/89)

> > The release of X11 that will be released with HP-UX 7.0 (fall 1989) will
> > provide the following:
> Sounds great.  How about for 800 series?

The 7.0 release applies to both 300 and 800 and is planned to happen
concurrently!  (Yes, the 800 is skipping from 3.1 to 7.0 to sync up with
the older 300 numbering sequence.  For old timers, you'll remember the
300 started at 5.0 to sync up with the 500.  For newcomers, this all
probably seems like nonsense, but then so did going from Version 7 to
System III :-).  You'll also be pleased to find that we're converging
functionality a lot better on the 300 and 800, not just release numbers!

Rob Robason

jbb@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Jim B. Byers) (08/02/89)

Series 800 and Series 300 X11 product content, features etc. have 
historically been identical ( - the configuration manuals were CPU
dependent because they refered to hardware.) 

There is no reason we can currently see why this consistency should
not continue.  The Series 800 X11 release will contain R3, Motif
window manager, Motif toolkit  etc.

Jim Byers
CIS Marketing/Lab Team
Corvallis Information Systems

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