🚀 go-pugleaf

rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes:

>OK, but what does this have to do with the list of workstations that
>are supported by the connection?  The connection is still made at OPEN
>PHIGS time, right?  When you connect to a PHIGS implementation it
>should know what kinds of workstations are supported.

I think we have a disagreement over what INQUIRE WORKSTATION TYPES is
supposed to tell you.  You seem to think it returns all supported
workstation types for the connection made at OPEN PHIGS time.  My
understanding of DEC PHIGS, is that it returns all workstation types
supported by the implementation (regardless of what connection is
made at OPEN PHIGS time).  I tried to explain the reasoning for this
before.  OPEN WORKSTATION can open a new connection to any display
on the network, so why should INQUIRE WS TYPES only return wstypes
supported by the display opened at OPEN PHIGS time?  I think we've
battered this topic enough.  If you want to discuss it further, we
can take it off line.

Ralph