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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: why X? what am I missing?
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Date: 14 Jan 91 20:31:45 GMT
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In article <130142@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>My father is considering buying a computer to run AutoCAD on.  There are
>more than 5 people in the world using AutoCAD, as you may know.  I don't
>know which window system Autodesk used on the Suns--is it X?

No, it isn't X.  And I think to say "I bet the next one will be X"
isn't terribly germaine to the question of "what is so wonderful about X?"

Let ME enumerate the applications I've seen on the dozen or so X-running
machines my coworkers have:

1. XTerm
2. XEyes
3. XWeather (a locally written weather map program)
4. Xrn
5. Xbiff
6. Xroot (sp?) (pretty background pictures)

Yawn.

I have to agree with the original poster; by far and away most X users
*I see* are using Xterm just about exclusively, which is handled quite
nicely on the NeXT by Shell and rlogin.  Or by a Macintosh with uw, for
that matter.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner