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I read a note in a market research newsletter that has me confused. It 
concerns the technical feasibility of implementing Presentation Manager
on top of X. The comment:

"...the object oriented structure of GDDM-based PM cannot interact with
the bit-mapped structure of X windows.  This incompatibility could leave
a void in the market between UNIX/X windows with its look and feel, and
PCs running Presentation Manager."

I have two questions:

1. Why would the "object oriented structure" stop PM from running on top
   of X?  (I assumed that you wouldn't try to "port" a kernel based 
   window system to a networked system, but for different reasons than 
   this implies.)

2. Assuming the the specs were in public domain (as has been rumored), why
   couldn't the "look and feel" be implemented by toolkits and style
   guides, such as are included with DECWindows and OPEN LOOK?


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Doug Klein
Network Computing Devices
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