[plug] X-Windows MBA

[John Summerfield]

>   Maybe then you can tell me: why doesnt win32 graphics work over a
> network, even though its supposed to be message-based ? 

Being message-based has no meaning in terms of the universe in which the 
message will circlate. I'm not familiar with WIN*, but likely it's similar 
to OS/2, or for that matter, Turbo Pascal.

Create a pice of dta (like a UDP or TCP packet) and send it. Like speaking 
into a telephone.

Any active message handler that sees it can:
1	Handle and consume it
2	Ignore it
3	Handle it and pass it on.

Active message handlers are like people on a party line; if they've not 
picked up the handset they don't hear the messages. Unless the phone 
wire's connected at the exchange to another line, nobody on the other side 
hears it either.

X is like the exchange; it makes connexions to other machines. Windows and 
OS/2 doen't.

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Cheers
John Summerfield
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