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From: kent@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why do so many "great" people dislike X?
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Date: 4 Sep 90 20:24:33 GMT
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Don't overlook the fact that two of the three people mentioned (Jobs and
Joy) have or had a commercial interest in seeing X fail.

Jim Fulton says that X's worst failing is probably its dependency on the
pixel as the base unit. I'd be tempted to agree, and this is one of the
reasons we've worked so hard on the Display PostScript extension. Not
only does it remove the need for client programs to worry about pixel
densities, it also allows client programs not to worry about what
strange variant of color hardware exists on the server.

Chris Kent	Western Software Laboratory	Digital Equipment Corporation
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