Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:57:00 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WINE (was: Uncle Sam, got a million bucks?) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980310105111.28890E-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199803091606.SAA08725@cdsec.com>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> This all seems a bit off topic but...
>
> > > What strategy does photon offer for preserving the investment that
> > > various enterprises have made in their existing X11 applications? Or are
> > > you going to pull a Java on me and tell me that the apps have to be
> > > rewritten?
> >
> > Isn't photon the proprietary GUI from those people who build realtime
> > POSIX certified kernels? If so, I don't think it's X11 source compatible,
> > and I believe you cannot use it as an X server.
>
> Photon is a proprietary windowing system that is used by QNX. If I remember
> correctly then there are libraries which will allow Photon apps to be
> compiled and run under X or messy windows, but not vice-versa.
There are also some other windowing systems, which _could_ be developed to
make a small replacement for X. The ones I'm aware of are: Bellcore's MGR
(long dead, no widget toolkits etc.), and W (still developed by Eero
Tamminen -though slowly- includes the widget toolkit and some apps {even
HTML 1.0 browser}). _If_ there were any office applications available (in
source), it would be possible to port them and create a "thin client". But
this is a big IF... and I think it evaluates to false :-/
Andrzej Bialecki
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