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From: tomt@maui.coral.COM (Tom Tulinsky)
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Subject: Macintosh vs. X windows
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Date: 30 Jan 91 16:22:37 GMT
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)         (I would also point to the unrivaled
)         clarity of the X documentation 

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)         and the availability of the X source
)         code in its entirety.  
Good point, esp. for an eductionaly project.  Depends tho on how much
you want to learn about graphics programming and how much you just
want to use a tool. 

)         Note also that the essential documentation
)         for much of X is free, the notable exception being the Asente &
)         Swick Toolkit book.  [Incidentally, will the *roff source for Asente
)         & Swick be included free in R5, the way Scheifler & Gettys et al.
)         is now?])

I must recommend that any beginner to X NOT try to learn it through
the MIT documentation but purchase the books by O'Reilly, Jones, and
something for his toolkit.  Speaking of which, when are we going to
clue John in that if he choosing X is only the beginning of his
decisions?  Maybe we should just refer him to the "Motif vs. Open
Look, is there a trend" thread of messages.  


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