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From: dan@cortex.neuro.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: X11 for the NeXTstation
Keywords: X Server, X11, XNeXT
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Date: 11 Jan 91 19:50:53 GMT
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In article <17136@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
>In case people at NeXT are reading this, let me reiterate Peter Deutsch's
>statement that the lack of X support is costing them sales. I am seriously
>considering the purchase of a NeXT machine, but am now having second
>thoughts because of what I have heard about the problems with X11R4
>under 2.0. It doesn't matter to me how wonderful NextStep is. If it 
>is nice, that is a plus. But the rest of our environment is X.
>If I don't have X, I can't run programs over the network, and I can't
>port software to the NeXT without major hassles. So I'm going to check
>on SUN again and see if I can get what I want from them. NeXT may lose
>a sale.

Here's another similar story.  The lack of X has cost NeXT many sales
recently at my institution.  They were very interested in NeXT but
when they found out there was no X, they bought suns.

dan


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