Z to X and why

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Author: tony%ee.brunel.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 14 May 1986 13:53

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I have heard that several people using the MCNC VIVID distribution are
porting it to different workstations by writing Z device drivers for them (Z
is a device independent graphics interface specifically tailored to bitmap
style operations). 

I have heard also that the later Berkeley tools are using Project Athena's
X-Window interface for their graphics interface.

Is somebody out there writing a Z device driver in terms of the X C-library
interface? (I doubt whether it is sensible to do the reverse). This would be
a quick way to get VIVID onto a large number of UNIX workstations.

Tony Begg (e-mail: tony%ee.brunel.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa)

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