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From: leh@atlantis.cis.ufl.edu (Les Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: X11 bashing
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Date: 24 Apr 91 14:47:31 GMT
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In article <28131F4E.F47@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
|> According to leh@atlantis.cis.ufl.edu (Les Hill):
|> >Why don't you just stack a couple of vt100s on your desk and save your
|> >inane indictments of X?
|> 
|> Actually, I use a '386 PC that runs a Telnet implementation with up to
|> nine sessions, among which I select with Alt-F#.  Quite friendly for
|> my money, and loads more useful than an X terminal.

Great! Glad to hear it!  However, I think you (and others) have missed the
point of my vitriol -- if you don't need X or if you don't want to use X,
then don't; on the other hand, if you need X or if you want to use X, then
do so.  Inane articulations about X-bloat and how it could all be solved
by some "all I need is xterms" solution identify the speaker as a parochial
yahoo bent on some personal vendetta (perhaps frustration due to a lack of
understanding of the subject matter :)

-- 
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