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From: mo@maximo.UUCP (Mike O'Dell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: X and the future
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Date: 5 Feb 88 06:52:55 GMT
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The astonishing baroqueness of X is the greatest threat
to the general sucess of UNIX to have come along since
System V hit the streets.  If you try to give an X
system to a real human being, not a computer hacker
masquerading as a normal person, they will croak.
If X doesn't instantly burn out their eyes and brain,
causing them to throw their UNIX box out the nearest
high window, it will drive them straight into the
arms of the Macintosh II.  With the toolbox under
AUX, all the windowy programs on the MacII will have a
clear, understable, and universal user interface.
With other alternatives, we face the very real prospect
of each window (program) having a different user
interface. That, friends, will be the death of UNIX.

	The Ol' Curmudgeon
	-Mike O'Dell

"Nature neither seeks nor abides opinions."