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From: gjc@mitech.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why do so many "great" people dislike X?
Message-ID: <4844@mitech.com>
Date: 4 Sep 90 18:25:10 GMT
References: <11813@chaph.usc.edu>
Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
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In article <11813@chaph.usc.edu>, ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
> 	some of the people I respect the best in the whole wide
> 	world; all think X is brain-dead.  Do you have any ideas on
> 	why?
> Bill Joy
crashme 100 10 200
(see comp.lang.c in sun os 4.0.3 *or* 4.1)
> Dennis Ritchie
Quite possibly the 'MIT' keyword is the main problem here.
X: Sun of Multics?
> Steven Jobs
Quite possibly a confusion of underlying system structure issues
with issues of user interface and applications generation tools.
Maybe somebody should ask him if he saw to it that the MAC O/S
made the same 24-bit address fiasco that the IBM 360 did, in order
that NeXT or others might have a fighting chance.

-gjc