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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: NeXT at Comdex???
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Date: 29 Nov 89 23:11:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu's message of 28 Nov 89 00:16:33 GMT

In article <9360@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes:
   Even SUN abandoned their proprietary windowing system, NeWS, good
   though it was, for something that was X11 compliant.

No, they added X11 protocol capability to the other stuff in the NeWS
server.  Architecturally, was a relatively clean and straightforward
thing to do.  Nothing was abandoned except perhaps aesthetic purity.