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From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: X11 for the NeXTstation
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.220536.7566@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 22:05:36 GMT
References: <1117@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1991Jan14.001459.13161@cs.mcgill.ca> <1120@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
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In article <1120@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <1991Jan14.001459.13161@cs.mcgill.ca>
>	peterd@cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
>>>NeXT has better things to worry about... like developing a
>>>C2-certifiable release.  That's going to count for a lot more,
>>>since the really big customers won't even look at NeXT without
>>>that, and it's not something a third party can easily address.
>>
>>Sorry, but I don't think "they" will look at it without X,
>>as well. It's now what the marketers call a "checklist
>>item".
>
>C2 is a *low* classification, and fairly simple to meet.  When
>  [much stuff about C2 deleted --SJB]
>target market.
>
>As an end-user, I'm no fan of C2--I think it's obnoxious.  But I
>realize that its importance is many orders of magnitude greater
>than One of Many window systems.  NeXT no more needs to support X
>than FORTRAN.  Just because some customers are up to their
>nostrils in that which stinketh, doesn't mean that NeXT has to
>lower itself to the same level.  If you want it, get it from a

     Time out here for a moment.  Remember when Mr. Jobs used to
tell the world quite loudly the same thing about floppy drives on
NeXT computers?  And what is NeXT, Inc. doing *now* about floppy
drives on NeXT computers?  There may indeed be lessons to be
learned from history.

>third party and stop holding the rest of us back.
>
> [more text deleted --SJB]
>
>You have to be willing to let go of the past or you're doomed.

     Being willing to let go of the past may be quite a different
critter from being willing to forget the past or from failing to
learn from it.  George Santayana's famous quotation appears to
apply.

>Kiss your X goodbye.
>
>					-=EPS=-
>-- 
>If you really believe that X11 will be with us for years to come
>and everyone's in too deep to get out now, look how many record
>stores still sell vinyl LPs.  The handwriting is on the wall.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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