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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Get Real
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Date: 30 Oct 90 21:46:54 GMT
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    "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."

Let me try to restate that in meaningful terms.  "In order to provide a
stable base for software developers, the X Consortium as a rule does not
make incompatible changes to its standards.  A minimum of three years of
stability is seen as essential.  That does not mean no new functionality
will be added, just that existing interfaces will not be changed in
incompatible ways."

    Will there be an X12 in the foreseeable future?

Coming to a theater near you on April 1, 1993.