klein@lupine.UUCP (Doug Klein ) (08/17/88)
I read a note in a market research newsletter that has me confused. It concerns the technical feasibility of implementing Presentation Manager on top of X. The comment: "...the object oriented structure of GDDM-based PM cannot interact with the bit-mapped structure of X windows. This incompatibility could leave a void in the market between UNIX/X windows with its look and feel, and PCs running Presentation Manager." I have two questions: 1. Why would the "object oriented structure" stop PM from running on top of X? (I assumed that you wouldn't try to "port" a kernel based window system to a networked system, but for different reasons than this implies.) 2. Assuming the the specs were in public domain (as has been rumored), why couldn't the "look and feel" be implemented by toolkits and style guides, such as are included with DECWindows and OPEN LOOK? -- Doug Klein Network Computing Devices uunet!lupine!klein