bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (10/18/88)
In article <1437@mas1.UUCP> jdn@mas1.UUCP (Jeff Nisewanger) writes: >The thing I'm skeptical about is how Next Step etc. will fit with >X11. I'm not sure X11 can be implemented for NeXT unless you go >directly to the display hardware. I don't think Display Postscript >supports the traditional Rasterop combinations required for X. Why not do like Sun did with NeWS 1.[01] and X 10.4 and write an X11 protocol engine in PostScript? Sun's was little more than a proof-of- concept, but with a little careful attention (and the added horsepower of the NeXT box) it could be useful. -=- Zippy sez, --Bob When this load is DONE I think I'll wash it AGAIN..
casey@admin.cognet.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom) (10/18/88)
| From: 128a-3aj@e260-3b.berkeley.edu (Jonathan Dubman) | | I would never want to get stuck with any one monitor. One thing that | REALLY bothers me, unless someone justifies it soon, is that the mouse | and keyboard plug into the monitor. This is the source of my worry about | proprietary monitors. What's the idea? I don't accept the argument that | it saves a foot of thin cable. As I understand it, one of the major `ergonomic' goals of the beast was to reduce the typical rat's nest of wires that most computers require. With NeXT, you're down to two: 1. power cable between The Cube and 2. one communications cable between The Cube and The Monitor. If you connect to an ethernet, add a laser printer, etc. obviously you have more cables, but there's really nothing that can be done about that. When you consider that (2) contains 1. monitor/keyboard/mouse power, 2. monitor output, 3. keyboard input, 4. mouse input, 5. stereo sound output, and 6. microphone input, you can well understand why he went with one cable for that instead of six. And, I imagine that if NeXT doesn't get around to offering some specific monitor capability that you want (higher resolution B&W, high performance color, etc.), there will be plenty of third party people willing to fill the gap. Casey -------- I have a friend who is planning on voting for Bush because ``Bush looks like a Party Man - someone who will follow whatever the Party Line is.'' Now, while this was very perceptive of my friend (Bush seems to be willing to say anything to get elected - no matter how at odds with what he may have said before), I call this a bug, not a feature ...