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From: moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
Message-ID: <90Nov11.235352edt.548@smoke.cs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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Date: 12 Nov 90 04:54:02 GMT
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fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) writes:
>	The market has always decided *real* standards.  Has and always will.

True.  We heard a fascinating talk from a Sun person when
OpenWindows1.0 came out about how they had finally acknowledged that
the market did want X. :-)

>	The way that X (and OSF/Motif, and the X toolkit in general) was 
>	foisted upon the computing community by DEC/IBM/HP pounding their

Funny, we've been running it on Suns all along (back in the good old
days of X10)  So have lots of other people.

	Mark.