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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The next workstation company ?
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 12:53:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 12:53:54 1987
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In article <778@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> ralph@ATRP.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Amiga-Man) writes:
>>
>>...
>>X-Windows is a MUST. Looks as though INTUITION (like TRIPOS) is bound 
>>for obscurity.  
>>...
>>Personally, I think a 386 based PC-Clone is the best candidate. It WILL
>>run UNIX of course and keep Corporate America happy by also running DOS.
>>
>>-ed-
>
>Sorry, I just couldn't sit idly by on this one.
>... ranting deleted
>But a bigger issue is: X-windows ?!?
>I've used them once and they just aren't as convenient as the intuitiuon
>interface. I really don't see it as the end of Intuition. I'd really like
>to see Intuition ported to UNIX...now, who's up for the challenge ??

You're missing the point here... the idea is not to see what you
can do to be the best, but to be STANDARD. For one user on one
system, writing all your own software, use anything you want. If
you're a manuracturer you want as much software as possible to
run on your hardware. If your a software author, you want to
write for the greatest number of machines.

X-windows is being supported by 11 majot companies officially,
and IBM has blessed it by implementing it on the RT. One of the
things I like about UNIX is moving code from an XT to a Cray or
anything in between. With a standard I can do that for graphics
as well.

What I expect to happen is that Sun will put X-windows under
NeWS, AT&T will accept it as part of SYS???, and people will
supply X versions for the MAC, Amiga, ST, and PC. At UNIFORUM I
saw several UNIX boxes and a PC running X, and I heard that
there will soon be X terminals.

I agree that there are better (you define what that means)
window systems, but until and unless one of these becomes a
standard, I will want to have the most portable graphics system
available, and today that means X.

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