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- From: cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters)
- Subject: Re: XView
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.163412.4385@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- Organization: NRAO
- References: <qhsckip@openlook.Unify.Com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 16:34:12 GMT
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- In article qhsckip@openlook.Unify.Com, fgreco@cfdev1026.shearson.com (Frank Greco) writes:
- > If I infer correctly, I don't believe DOE will provide a
- > GUI-toolkit, but rather a higher-level, O-O manager of
- > user-requested display services. We'd all like a NeXT-step-ish
- > environment, but DOE probably won't give that to us. One might
- > imagine such an application environment separate from DOE but
- > with connectivity to DOE.
-
- DOE is rather fuzzy sales-speak. About all that I can infer from the
- DOE white paper is that Sun will provide an object request broker that
- complies with the OMG Common Object Request Broker Architecture and
- will build some (unspecified) goodies on top of that.
-
- The ORB provides applications with a message passing service. This could be
- used by graphical applications but has no direct connection with a GUI.
-
- Chris Flatters
- cflatter@nrao.edu
-