Date:      Mon, 13 Sep 1993 21:12:56 PDT
From: "Greg Holmberg" <greg AT surfgear DOT com>
Organization: Cyberspace Surf Gear
To: kuku AT acds DOT physik DOT rtwh-aachen DOT de
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:   DV/X

> ... implementing some kind of libX11 - not necessarily with full
> networking capability ...

The Quarterdeck part is libsys.a, but it only attaches your client to
DV/X. A different libsys.a is required for the different 32-bit compilers.
(Why is that, DJ? Different memory adressing schemes?)

A generic library capable of attaching to a remote X server through an
existing network transport would be VERY useful. If you had only one X
server, but 30 PCs (common situation), you could write a client that
distributed the work assymetrically among them while maintaining one or
more connections to the X server for output. This assumes that no one
else wants to use the PCs for anything but rendering.

I have never heard of anything like this, but it doesn't sound too hard
to write, given two things:

  1) A large piece of libsys.a, showing how the Xt (etc) functions are
     mapped into X protocol requests and sent to the driver. The alternative
     to this is to read and comprehend O'Reilly Volume Zero. (ouch)

  2) A very narrow implementation requirement, i.e., only one master active
     with all other clients registered with the master (inefficient), and
     strictly one transport (TCP/IP or IPX or ??).

This sounds like a useful thing to have. It also sounds like a man-year of
work. :-)

Greg
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