On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:18:35AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:03:52PM +0800, eric pareja wrote: > > Thanks. I'm wondering though if it's still built atop X just like DPS? > > No, and as far as I know the original DPS that was used on NeXT wasn't > built atop X either. Neither is the experimental DPS system being > developed for use with GNUstep.
Okay, I dug a little deeper before putting my foot in my mouth. :) DPS itself doesn't provide a windowing system per se. It was the Implementor's choice of poison, though IBM and SGI used X to underlie DPS. In the case of the NeXT, and similarly, Apple's Mac OS X, they built their own. -- ___ _____________________________ eric pareja (xenos AT maharlika.upm.edu.ph) \e/ [ Philippine Linux Users' Group plug.linux.org.ph ] [Python Power!] _v_ [ Linux User #8159 http://counter.li.org ] [Debian Rocks!] [ /. #2834 ] [Ubiquitous Computing] [http://www.bookcrossing.com/referral/pusakat] Join us on IRC: #plug irc.free.net.ph:6667 | http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
