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From: keithp@xavier.tamu.edu (Keith D Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: X11 opinion.
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Date: 22 Oct 90 12:05:59 GMT
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Mark ("Gaijin") Crispin writes:
>The "foolishness" of X11 has a much better VT100 terminal emulator
>than Terminal or Shell (I haven't compared it with the 2.0 one yet);
>it *correctly* emulates a VT100 and does so a lot faster.

Check out Terminal under 2.0. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
(Thanks Scott!)

>The "foolishness" of X11 allows the use of multi-national character
>sets which NeXTstep does not as yet do, *including* in 2.0.  All we
>have from NeXT is promises.  With "foolish" X11 using XNeXT, those of
>us who want to do Japanese JIS, Chinese GB, and Chinese BIG5
>processing on a NeXT can do so *now*, without waiting for NeXT to
>deliver on promises which may never be fufilled.

I belive that there are two Japanese NeXTStep versions out there.
2.0 also supports a fair number of European langauges. Check out
Preferences under 2.0 to see the list. NeXT is working on getting 
more langauge support. Why have that neato power supply if you're
not going to sell outside the U.S.?

Keith Perkins
Texas A&M University