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From: glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: why X? what am I missing?
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Date: 17 Jan 91 04:25:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 14 Jan 91 20:31:45 GMT


dorner says:

>>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.  

To which I say, who are you to make this statement and what are y9ou
basing your info on? Of course we use it. But we don't use IT we use
the SunView and XView toolkits because that's what Sun uses. If NeWS
had won we'd use that. We don't care; X wasn't the reason for doing a
product anymore than the chip that they used...

All the same I agree with your conclusion 100%. 

- g

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