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From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
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Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times?
Message-ID: <1991May6.232136.17257@dsd.es.com>
Date: 6 May 91 23:21:36 GMT
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In article <1991May4.011456.25729@borland.com>
	sjc@borland.com (Steve Correll) writes:
    Gee, from my experience, X windows can keep any processor saturated
    without any action whatsoever on the part of the individual user. :-)

In article <8323@uceng.UC.EDU>
	dmocsny@minerva.che.uc.edu (Daniel Mocsny) writes:
>Out of curiosity, how many individual users can set up and
>maintain *their own* computer running X? (The ideal answer should
>be: all of them.)

Setup?  Open up the boxes, plug in the cables and turn on the power.

Maintain?  backups

Seriously, setting up the average *commerically produced* X
workstation isn't any harder than setting up a PC.  Maintenance isn't
any more difficult either.  (Note: most people don't properly maintain
their PC until they lose their first important chunk of data).

I have had to setup both, and I would actually say that setting up an
X workstation is easier than setting up a PC.  In PC land everything
has a list of supported printers, display adapaters, etc. and you have
to make sure that the support set of the software you buy intersects
the set of hardware you have.  This is because everybody codes
directly to the hardware instead of some abstract interface because
the latter is "too slow".

						-- Rich
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