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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (80)	8/22/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 484

Berlin is an network opaque, true client-server windowing system. Some of the terminology will be familiar from X-windows, but Berlin is more like NeWS in design than X11. As much logic as possible has been moved out of the client applications' address space, into the display server. This increases user-configurability, and decreases network traffic considerably. The display server contains a complete outline font rendering system, the Mesa OpenGL library, 24bit emulation code, and a Corba ORB. WOW They beat us to it!! But it may not be too late. I cans still get NeWs code ported to Linux faster than they can get their system up. EC<:-}

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (80)	8/22/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 484

"The icing on the cake is that all languages (C, C++, Java, Cobol, Ada, Lisp, Scheme, Perl, Python, REXX, etc.) and platforms (Unix, NT, OS/2, MacOS, Rhapsody, etc.) which have Corba implementations immediately work as development environments for Berlin components, using the exact same object model and method names as they would in any other language. By encouraging the development of high-level UI protocols and classes in IDL, we are helping drive forwards a huge interoperability standard." I knew there was a catch.