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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: 23 Jan 91 18:55:29 GMT
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In article <2095@autodesk.COM> glang@Autodesk.COM (Gary Lang) writes:
>>>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?

I work with a customer of yours who tried to run AutoCAD from her X
terminal, and was told "sorry, you gotta be running SunView", or words
to that effect.

Perhaps she has an old version.  Perhaps AutoCAD simply won't work over
the network with X (what *was* the X crowd crowing about?).  All I know is
it didn't work for her when she tried it in the obvious manner, and I
drew the obvious conclusion.  I guess I should have written:

  Our version of AutoCAD won't work on our X terminals, so what good is it
  to us even if AutoCAD "uses" X? It might as well be completely proprietary.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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