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From: ken@rochester.ARPA (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Confusing Confusion with Technical Issues
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Date: Wed, 20-May-87 10:35:21 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 20 10:35:21 1987
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I don't know Mike. Would you say that something like Unix is doomed to
fail because it doesn't support many high level user oriented
constructs? DR himself said Unix (V7 at least) was a glorified I/O
multiplexer, and that was as it should be.  No, I didn't think you
would.

I think you're confusing the X that you can ftp with the X that vendors
are working on. There is no reason a vendor couldn't throw out the
entire set of X toys and write their own. The Sun X that we run has so
many annoying problems that I wouldn't dare call it a product. But it
is free, which is all us poor educational institutions can afford.

Summary: X supplies mechanism, you can program your own style of user
interface. I don't think Athena wants to get involved with the
religious issues of the sort "one button vs three".

	Ken