srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) (12/20/90)
karlton@sgi.com (Phil Karlton) writes: [... all sorts of nifty stuff deleted ...] > Other things will be happening, and I don't know the content. The > major purpose of the original announcement was to give early warning > that a currently supported feature is being withdrawn with IRIX 4.0, > i.e., there will be no NeWS window manager. (Don't forget that > PostScript rendering will be supported through the DPS X extension.) Does this mean that DPS service will be some sort of X client, or will DPS be built into the X server, or something else all together? I'm really sorry to see NeWS fall by the wayside: indeed it surprises me that noone else has said as much. From what I have experienced, NeWS seems technologically superior to X. But as is painfully evident, X has become something of the industry standard. I appreciate the openess and detail with which SGI is letting us know what direction they are taking. >PK "They shoot window servers, don't they" - Scott Presnell -- Scott Presnell +1 (415) 476-9890 Pharm. Chem., S-926 Internet: srp@cgl.ucsf.edu University of California UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!srp San Francisco, CA. 94143-0446 Bitnet: srp@ucsfcgl.bitnet
karlton@sgi.com (Phil Karlton) (12/29/90)
In article <srp.661625283@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu>, srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) writes: |> Does this mean that DPS service will be some sort of X client, or will DPS |> be built into the X server, or something else all together? The latter. DPS will be available as an X extension. The PostScript rendering will be done in the context of the X server. There is also a client side library portion of the product. They include mechanisms to encode the PostScript stream in binary so that it does not have to have lexical analysis done on the server side. You will have to wait to get details. PK