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From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
Subject: Re: XWindows for PS2 Model 70
Message-ID: <1990Nov18.221148.11745@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
References: <1990Nov15.192828.17668@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <11663@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 90 22:11:48 GMT

In article <11663@hubcap.clemson.edu> lsalomo@hubcap.clemson.edu (lsalomo)
writes:
>I seriously doubt that there will be an X version for OS/2, given that it
>already has a rather complete GUI (Presentation Manager).

If X were just a GUI, I might buy that as a legitimate reason not to
bother.  However, X allows things like running a program on one machine
and displaying the output on another.  Can OS/2 do that?  Furthermore, since
large machines will never run OS/2, X presents certain portability
advantages.

				Marc R. Roussel
                                mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca