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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: why X? what am I missing?
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Date: 12 Jan 91 06:50:51 GMT
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In article <12048.278dfd95@ecs.umass.edu> gerst@ecs.umass.edu writes:


   What is the REAL reason people are choosing X based systems over the NeXT?

   Is there something I'm missing? What is running on X that everyone is using
   other than Xterm, Xeyes and Backgammon :) ???

   I would really like to know why NeXT is losing sales to a windowing environment
   which is nothing more than a multi-session terminal for the majority of the 
   users.

   Everything I've seen so far is "we have to run X", "we need X", "we bought
   Sun's because they run X"...     WHY?????


At Penn State we have VLSI tools like magic that run under X.  The
great thing about X is that you can run a program on a Cray and have
it display on a Sun, Mac, etc(but not NeXT).  X is here to stay.
Besides it's free and you can get source.  Granted NeXTStep is much
better, but X is necessary.

-Mike