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From: S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT & Interface Builders
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Date: 11 Oct 90 22:32:23 GMT
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On 11 Oct 90 08:20:16 GMT you said:
>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.

I may be wrong, but I think the original author meant that the NeXT doesn't run
X as its native OS.  Not that it doesn't run X at all.  You still have to run
NeXTStep to run X.

Disclaimer: I may be wrong about the above.

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