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From: romero@parc.xerox.com (Antonio Romero)
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Subject: Re: why X? what am I missing?
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Date: 16 Jan 91 01:05:15 GMT
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In article <BB.91Jan13215041@reef.cis.ufl.edu> bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) writes:
>> 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).
>NextStep is network-transparent, too.


Has anyone ever implemented a client that talks to NeXTStep over
the network that wasn't running on a NeXT itself?
Also, could companies or individuals who weren't themselves NeXT
users be persuaded to do this until NeXTStep reaches the kind of 
volume that X has?

-Antonio Romero       romero@arisia.xerox.com