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From: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Multitasking discussion
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Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 13:41:38 EST
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Reply-To: grunau_b@husc4.UUCP (Justin J. M. Grunau)
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Well, in follow-up to Jim Omura's list of available "options" for graphical
windowing environments to run on top of multitasking UNIX-like OSs on the ST,
I think my tentative vote is for X-Windows -- it's about time we had some sort
of standard, both in OS (UNIX or look-alike) and windowing environment.

I also think it would be nice to make X-Windows run with MINIX as well as (or
instead of) OS-9.

One thing, though -- the original XEROX PARC project which started this whole
business was centred not on windowing per se but on OBJECT-ORIENTED programming.
Something like the Mac's windowing environment is not a good implementation
of this concept, which I think is a sound one.  I assume X-Windows is more
along these lines?  In which case, it gets my vote even more enthusiastically.

									JJMG
grunau@husc4.UUCP

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