Second Graphics Console

[Michael Portuesi]

>>>>> On 29 Jan 91 14:05:07 GMT, jit at SLIC.CELLBIO.DUKE.EDU (Jit Keong Tan) said:

> portuesi at sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) said:

>> You cannot run WorkSpace anywhere else except the graphics console of
>> the IRIS.  It uses the Graphics Library for all of its imaging.  It
>> was also my impression that the NeXT station supported Display
>> PostScript, not NeWS.  It might be hard getting a NeWS application to
>> run there.

>> You can use an X terminal with an IRIS just as you would with any
>> other computer system.

> Does this imply that IRIX 4.0 will be able to handle a second console
> because the window server will be X window and that NeWS will be
> a client running on top of X window ?

There will be no NeWS server in IRIX 4.0.  The X server in IRIX 4.0
will allow you to have multiple multiple displays running off the same
server.

m.
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