bsp@uts.amdahl.com (Bill Pieterouiski) (01/19/91)
I'm in the "choose a workstation" dilemma! My only experience is with NCD X-terminals, so I need some advice. What do you think of the DECstation 3100 for developing OpenLook software? What are the problems & benefits of using the DECstation, running Ultrix, in an OpenLook (or non-Motif) environment? If you've used it, have you used the Input Synthesis Extension? Which server did you use (DECwindows, X11R4, AT&T, etc.) ? How is the DECstation in general? (Be as subjective as you like; I am! :-) Thanks in advance, -- bsp@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com UTS: Mainframe UNIX(tm) System V For 10 Years aka: Bill Pieterouiski Building 16 Credo: UTS User Interface Development "Die Gedanken Sind Frei" Amdahl Corp. o16, Santa Clara CA
usd@ecmwf.co.uk (Ditlef Martens) (01/23/91)
ECMWF has got a network of SUN SPARCs running OpenWindows.
We resently got 3 DECstation 5000 running DECwindows. As we are
developing XView applications and want to use some of the OpenWindows
applications on the DECstation we need to log into a SUN and run
XView applications.
We have, hovewer NOT succeeded running XView applications on the
DECstations.
Applications like cmdtool start up, but if we move the cmdtool window,
the application aborts with a bad atom error. We have tracked it
down to a byte swapping error in the client-event WM_TAKE_FOCUS.
XView will ask the server for name (XGetAtomName) of the Atom 9830400,
equal to the byte-swapped value of 150 (WM_TAKE_FOCUS).
Our configuration is as follows:
DECstation 5000 running ULTRIX 4.0.
Standard DECwindows configuration.
XView fonts from SUN XView 2.0 compiled using bdftopcf.
Unless we have done something stupid/wrong in our setup we would
NOT recommend mixing these two worlds as there are BUGS in either
the DEC server or in XView disabling such cooperation.
--
Ditlef Martens
ECMWF (European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts)
Shinfield Park, Reading Phone: +44 734 499 000 Fax: .. 869 450
Berkshire RG2 9AX UK usd@ecmwf.co.uk