- From: Marshall T. Rose <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:31:37 -0800
- To: "Jim Gettys" <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: "Jim Gettys" <jg@pa.dec.com>, "Discuss Apps" <discuss@apps.ietf.org>, "Marshall Rose" <mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us>
jim - i think we pretty much are in agreement, but one question: > Thousands of graphics apps have been built on top of X: the point being, > for the domain of graphics, one protocol was designed to support (almost) > all comers, and we succeeded at that up until about 1993. Keith Packard > and I are conspiring to try to update X again to get back to that level > of universality (X, right now, does not include translucent windows, > which it needs, and a few other items, though Keith's recent work has > added antialised text and graphics with alpha blending, based on and > extending beyond Rob Pike's Plan 9 work). what happened exactly in 93? in general, once you start winning, it's hard to stop winning... /mtr
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