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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT & Interface Builders
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Date: 11 Oct 90 08:20:16 GMT
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In article <8036@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>NeXT has another Big Problem which will limit software for it -- it
>doesn't run X.  X is a very powerful force in the market right now,

BZZZZZZZZT!!!  Wrong, wrong, wrong, very, very, wrong.

Those wonderful folks (at MIT?) ported X11R3 (at least, R4 may be out by
now).  X for the next runs in one of the NeXTStep windows, so you have
two user interfaces going at once.  I hope that the people who have a
need to do this invest in lots and lots of RAM!

             Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.