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From: gaynor@topaz.rutgers.edu (Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: My Opinion: NeWS vs X
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Date: 14 Feb 88 05:45:22 GMT
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I wrote, somewhat uninformed as to the internals of X:
> Is there any merit to the following proposal: For X, write a
> buffering routine which buffers calls to X routines into chunks, and
> `write out' the buffer via a call to a buffer-outputting routine or
> by meeting a condition.

Apparently, this *is* the way things are done (or something real
similar).  So, I guess there was merit to the proposal.  :-)

[Ag]