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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
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Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
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Date: 9 Nov 90 18:40:18 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.170826.10967@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>But I really wish it wasn't a networked
>window system.  I see very little that can be gained from networking
>graphics that couldn't be done more efficiently using RPC and other
>protocols at higher levels of abstraction. And without the networking
>issues to get in the way the issues of efficiency would largely be
>moot.

At the time X was designed (and even to some degree today) there was no
standard RPC mechanism, or anything else at that level.  You may argue that
if X had picked some RPC mechanism, that mechanism would be a standard today,
and you might well be right.  But you might also be wrong, and opposition to
accepting RPC might have kept people from adopting X.

	-paul asente
		asente@adobe.com	...decwrl!adobe!asente