Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!gamiddle
From: gamiddle@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Subject: Re: X sucks (was: Re: Ware Ware Wizardjin)
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.194243.12882@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
References: <9104072151.AA28702@gaia> <128236@uunet.UU.NET> <15785@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1991 19:42:43 GMT
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X does suck, but its popularity seems inevitable, since it doesn't cost any
money.  Other, better systems could have become the de facto standard, had
they been as cheap.  Of the set of free, reasonably portable, reasonably
hardware-independent window systems that have been available since
workstation hardware became affordable, X seems to be the best.  Of course,
that set has only one member.

 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo		gamiddleton@watmath.waterloo.edu
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