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From: seg@barney.mitre.org (Scott E. Gordon)
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Subject: Re:  Why do so many "great" people dislike X?
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Date: 7 Sep 90 15:17:08 GMT
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	As someone who is going to be moving to an 'X' environment
	for reasons of image processing, I am *really* worried about
	the imaging functions in X.  I have heard very bad things about
	these functions.  Well, actually, I just heard that they were
	really bad, but was not really told the reasons.  Can anyone
	expound on their experiences?  

	Also, there is a question (keeping in mind we know very little
	about X right now) about whether software written in X will
	work for any X peripheral.  If we have 2 different display
	boards for example, do we have to have 2 different versions
	of the software, or do the boards deal with the imaging calls and
	(hopefully) are transparent to the user? 


			Thanx for your support

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