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Subject: Re: Bugs in uwm/menuwm for SUNs
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Date: Sat, 28-Mar-87 22:45:23 EST
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Jim,
 
For a few years now, I've been a believer that a good windows system is one that
will work in a heterogeneous environment where a user's workstation can be in
communication with several remote and independent hosts simultaneously and
capable of providing a window for every job the user has currently executing on
any host.
 
My understanding is that neither X nor any other window system is currently
capable of operating in such an environment. (Maybe some future version!!) But
if it were, then testing would be a "simple" matter of running an appropriate
test routine on the machines to be tested from a single workstation.
 
I realize that the logistics of arranging such testing may be as challenging as
developing a system that can operate under such a system. But I can dream.
 
Jon Meads
Portland, Oregon
{jmeads@ADA20.ISI.EDU}
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