From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from alpha.xerox.com ([13.1.64.93]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24403>; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:58:05 -0400 Received: from moose.intran.xerox.com ([13.243.212.3]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15446(6)>; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 13:23:10 PDT Received: from mangrove.swamp (mangrove.intran.xerox.com) by moose.intran.xerox.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03236; Mon, 24 Jun 96 14:21:55 CDT Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:21:55 -0400 From: seebs@intran.xerox.com (Peter Seebach) Message-Id: <9606241921.AA03236@moose.intran.xerox.com> To: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Re: 8 1/2 for Unix? I haven't seen one. You could implement one which sat on X, but which basically opened the root window and took it over. You would have a *very* hard time avoiding that dependancy, as graphics hardware varies. But if you wrote one which used a window, you could do pretty well. -s