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- From: blevins@orgel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Brian Blevins)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: The future of X?
- Message-ID: <BLEVINS.92Jul30190055@orgel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:00:55 GMT
- Sender: news@ifistg.uucp
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Informatik, Univ. Stuttgart. W.Germany
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- Hi,
-
- After writing some Xlib code, reading this group for a while, and browsing
- through the latest FAQs I could find, I'm still left with a couple of
- questions and a meta-question concerning the future of X.
-
- First, the meta-question:
-
- Where can one (is it possible to) find out what research/advancement
- of the protocol is occurring without having to subscribe to the journals?
- Being a student, I'm not part of an organization that is likely to
- join the X Consortium any time soon and the technical conference next
- year is very likely to be out of my price range (as well as being next
- year).
- (I'm already considering the Journal option, and was thinking more along
- the lines of FTP here.)
-
-
- Ok, now the normal questions:
-
- 1. What information (functionality, proposals, etc.) is available about
- the next release (X11R6?) ?
-
- 2. Will there or should I ask "could there" be a next version (X12R0?) ?
- I know, given the size of the current market, producing anything
- not X11 compatible would seem silly...
-
- 3. Can motion video and audio be incorporated into X11 or will they
- require a risky attempt to create an X12? (Actually, one could
- argue that the hardware for video and audio either aren't available
- or aren't standardized enough to even consider incorporating
- these new functions into the standard protocol, but I don't
- believe it. That's what drivers are for.)
-
-
- So, that's probably too long already... E-mail me if you like, but
- these seem like great post subjects to me.
-
- Thanks for the bandwidth and the information!
-
- Brian,
- the expatriot Wramblin Wreck
-
- W. Brian Blevins | blevins@orgel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
- Institute for Parallel and Dist. | telephone: +49-711-682886
- High-performance Computing | address: Pfaffenwaldring 42D/3.1
- Informatik Institute | D-7000 Stuttgart 80
- | (Germany)
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- These are my opinions, wholly my opinions, and probably nothing but my opinions...
-
- --
- Brian,
- the expatriot Wramblin Wreck
-
- W. Brian Blevins | blevins@orgel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
- Institute for Parallel and Dist. | telephone: +49-711-682886
- High-performance Computing | address: Pfaffenwaldring 42D/3.1
- Informatik Institute | D-7000 Stuttgart 80
- | (Germany)
- "Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory."
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- These are my opinions, wholly my opinions, and probably nothing but my opinions...
-