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From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: X11 for the NeXTstation
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.143514.38@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 91 20:35:14 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.020437.14465@cs.mcgill.ca> <17136@csli.Stanford.EDU> <3573@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1117@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
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In article <1117@toaster.SFSU.EDU>, eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> In article <3573@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> dan@cortex.neuro.bcm.tmc.edu
> 	(Dan Johnston) writes:
>>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.
> 
> Big F---ing Deal.  As far as I'm concerned, stuff like
> 
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> 	X11Rwhatever

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> 
> are all "foreign compatibility" products.  None of these are
> native to the NeXT.  I don't want to pay for their development or
> their support in bundled systems.  Third parties are perfectly
> capable of venturing into these arenas, and deserve all the
> profits they can milk out of you suckers.
> 
> I also have a very low opinion of people who resort to emotional
> blackmail.
> 
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> As it is, we see NeXTs having a lot fewer deficiencies than Suns.
> As soon as the color NeXTs start shipping in volume, we'll have
> a hard time justifying more SPARCstations--they're just too damn
> expensive to bring up to a similar level of functionality.
> 
> 					-=EPS=-
> -- 
> Imagine a world without human suffering.  Imagine a world without X.

I would feel better about NeXT not supporting X if it was more open to having
NeXTstep on other platforms.  Several times I have heard NeXT people saying "no
we will not port NeXTstep to any SUN platform."  NeXT does not have to bundle
X, it just needs to be available from someplace...  The same goes for other
things on your list.

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