Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ames!dftsrv!kong!vesper From: vesper@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Greg Vesper - RMS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: X11 opinion. Keywords: X SUCKS, X is GROSS, X is...well you get the picture. Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 22:18:53 GMT References: <9224@helios.TAMU.EDU> <564@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <1990Nov1.193640.2652@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Lines: 34 In <1990Nov1.193640.2652@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> gcarter@globey.cs.wisc.edu (Gregory Carter) writes: >Gosh you people hate X??? I haven't heard one good thing about it. Anybody >out there like it? >I was thinking, if NeXT supports such a system, how much more appealing it >would be to buy a NeXT machine. >--Gregory NextStep is a superior development environment, but X gives you certain functionality that I desperately need if I am to become a full-time cube-user. I'm a system and network administrator (among other things) and X allows me to log into a dozen entirely incompatable workstations at the click of a button. Once logged on, I can cut and paste from one machine to the other, from one 'vi' session to the other... etc. This makes my job soooo much easier. If NeXT would give you the option of some of this functionality, it would become a great tool for system's programmers and administrators. I still use the machine, but I'd like to be able to use it for my day to day drudgery of maintaining a network of sun's, dec's, hp's, solbourne's ... If I ever find the time, I'll right an app that provides just such functionality, but it wouldn't be that tough for NeXT to make their windowing environment more flexible. Greg Vesper (vesper@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov) 301-286-5162 Goddard Space Flight Center; Greenbelt, Maryland "Two basic facts of life: 1) There is a God. 2) You're not him." -- Greg Vesper (vesper@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov) 301-286-5162 Goddard Space Flight Center; Greenbelt, Maryland "Two basic facts of life: 1) There is a God. 2) You're not him."