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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
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Subject: Re: X11 opinion.
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Date: 23 Oct 90 03:57:34 GMT
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In <9751@milton.u.washington.edu> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:

>X will survive for the same reasons Unix has survived.  Unix is an
>incredibly *primitive* operating system.  It's the tools layered on
>top of Unix, and its portability to unlimited platforms, that have
>pushed it to the top of the heap.

>Unless NeXT gives NeXTstep to the world, NeXTstep is doomed to be
>nothing more than a footnote in alt.folklore.computers.

Ah, so I guess Mac is doomed to become a footnote too eh?  After all,
they haven't given away their window interface ither have they?  I
find that quite amusing.

-k