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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT & Interface Builders
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Date: 17 Oct 90 16:36:27 GMT
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In article <123395@linus.mitre.org> duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson) writes:
>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).


The NeXT went with DisplayPostScript because it is an elegant solution for what
they wanted to do - a single uniform output model.  I guess they figured they
would be able to make platforms fast enough to do it before people got over
their first impressions.  Maybe an '040 is fast enough, a 50Mhz '040 should do
the trick.  Anyway, NeXT probably figured on someone porting X-Windows and then
they would have that also, without having NeXT officially embrace anything less 
than an elegant solution.  Which is what has happened.  Well, it's MY theory
anyway and I'm sticking to it. :-)



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