Scope
Fresco tried to use a different approach than most other user interface systems. Its scope was different from for instance the X Window System. In X, Xorg provides graphics and input drivers, drawing primitives (sometimes through extensions), and a network transparent way of using these. Fresco on the other hand aimed to provide the primitives and the network transparency, and in addition to provide the higher level widgets that a GUI toolkit in the X Window System would provide.
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