Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!scs!spl1!laidbak!att!ihnp4!ucbvax!ATI.TIS.LLNL.GOV!nye From: nye@ATI.TIS.LLNL.GOV (Scott Nye) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Sunview under NeWS Message-ID: <8806010803.AA23583@ati.tis.llnl.gov> Date: 1 Jun 88 19:29:21 GMT Article-I.D.: ati.8806010803.AA23583 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 Sun released a paper entitled "Sunview Direction Statement" (January '88, I believe) which discussed these issues. To summarize briefly: Sunview 2.0 will be based on the new merged NeWS/X11 server. The server will handle any device specificities, so Sunview programs which use old (pre Sunview) Sunwindows calls, and some Pixrect and CGI calls may not work under Sunview 2. Sun also stated that for the first release of Sunview 2, Sunview 1.1 compatibility would remain. If you are using a device which is connected to the machine on which the client is running you could still manipulate the color map, etc. directly, but that would undo any benefit of going to a device independent client/server based system. Your friendly Sun rep. should have copies of the paper ... Scott Nye. nye@tis.llnl.gov