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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: CLX origins
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Date: 30 Oct 90 17:23:39 GMT
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    was it designed as a porting path from the graphics on the Symbolics Lisp
    machines (ala SunView -> XView).

No.  It was simply designed to be a relatively "natural" native interface for
the X protocol in Common Lisp.