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From: duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT & Interface Builders
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Date: 16 Oct 90 01:51:16 GMT
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I recently attended a talk given by Steve Jobs at a Computer/Software
converence in Tokyo.  Steve 's talk was essentially a long advertisement
for the NeXT computer.  (The demo of NeXtStep was very impressive.
He also demonstrated real-time video with CD quality sound coming
off the machine's optical disk.  Sad to say it, but the Amiga has a LONG
way to go before it couild compete with one of those babies.)

Anyway, one of the questions asked after the talk was "Why doesn't the
NeXT use X-windows when everyone else in the Unix world is using it?"
Jobs's answer was 1) I don't care what everyone else in the
Unix world is using - NeXT only happens to use Unix because it is a convenient
platform for the NeXT application software, and 2) X-windows is "brain
damaged" (his words).

Could someone explain what it is about X-windows that makes it "brain damaged"
or "fatally flawed"?

Duncan Thomson


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