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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: why X? what am I missing?
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Date: 14 Jan 91 03:57:10 GMT
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In article <BB.91Jan13215041@reef.cis.ufl.edu> bb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) writes:

I said:

   > 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.

Only on other NeXT workstations.  Not with a Cray, Connection Machine,
Sun, IBM, HP, Data Generials,...  Get the picture.  Although it has
been said before I'll say it again.  No one is contending that X is
better than NeXT Step, we're all saying that most existing
environments are based on X, and they will continue to be based on X.

-Mike