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From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DECwindows and X
Summary: contributing to problem
Message-ID: <2822@ics.COM>
Date: 4 Sep 89 15:03:52 GMT
References: <8909011429.AA07331@wimpy.XPI.uu.net>
Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA
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In article <8909011429.AA07331@wimpy.XPI.uu.net>, ctr@xpiinc.UUCP (Christian Reimer, ctr@xpiinc.uu.net) writes:
< 
< >>I don't see any DECwindows toolkit calls here, do you?   <ctr@xpiinc.uu.net>
< >>Using the term "DECwindows" gives the impression that you are talking
< >>about some proprietary DEC system, not the freely distributed X Window System.
<   I'm sorry if it seemed so.
< 
<   I agree that the confusion betweenn DECwindows and X is unfortunate, but it is
< real.  I can't count the number of times in the last month that I've had to tell
< people "DECwindows IS X".

Isn't this just the sort of statement that is causing the confusion in 
the first place?
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