SGI's migration to X

[Jeremy Webber]

In article <SLEHAR.90Sep4105933 at cochlea.bu.edu> slehar at cochlea.bu.edu (Steve Lehar) writes:

  [lots of disparaging things about X]

It seems to me that you are using the raw X library when perhaps it would be
more appropriate to use the X Intrinsics library, and the Athena Widgets
toolkit.  What you are doing looks like the equivalent of writing all your SGI
applications in raw Postscript, rather than using the GL.

To the point made in the original article, I would be surprised if Silicon
Graphics moved to X without porting the Graphics Library to run under a pure X
server.  I certainly see no reason why this couldn't be done.

		-jeremy
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