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From: doug@genmri.UUCP (Doug Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X12?
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Date: 30 Oct 90 20:18:38 GMT
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On page 54 of the October, 1990 issue of "Personal Workstation," in an
article entitled "Graphics Under UNIX?," the authors of the article
state

    "Meanwhile, as a courtesy to software developers, the X Consortium
    has agreed to freeze through 1991 X Windows' [sic] core
    specifications at the X11 level."

Is this true?  I'm not looking for privileged information, per se (my
company is not a Consortium member).  If this indeed true, I'm really
more interested to hear where X11's extension mechanism (and the
protocol / Xlib specifications, which is what I assume the authors
meant by "core specifications") failed.

I also seem to remember Bob Scheifler claiming that there would be no
"X12" (as the quote would appear to suggest); I may be mistaken.  Will
there be an X12 in the foreseeable future?

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Douglas H. Becker
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