Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: X sucks (was: Re: Ware Ware Wizardjin) Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <9104072151.AA28702@gaia> <128236@uunet.UU.NET> <15785@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr15.000020.21915@digibd.com> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 18:35:34 GMT In article <1991Apr15.000020.21915@digibd.com> rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes: > OK, I'll bite. WHERE is a window system that will run on all > the systems X currently does, provides miraculous performance > AND is easy to learn and for vendors to support? Doesn't exist. Why? Because bad money drives out good. Where is the incentive to do a better job than X if it won't buy you anything. Even Sun has pretty much given up on NeWS (though why NeXT didn't polish NeWS instead of starting from scratch only Steve Jobs can explain). > I've heard ALOT of complaints about how bad X is, WHY doesn't > anybody do something about it? Sun did. Look where it got them. They've now gotta remain backwards compatible with 3 window systems. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"