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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Marketplace choice of Windowing Standard?
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Date: 14 Feb 88 19:58:16 GMT
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Reply-To: dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <3a06a194.c32@apollo.uucp> dawson@apollo writes
>Most important of all it the fact that the marketplace has chosen X as the
>industry standard window system.

Ahem ... I do believe that "chosen by the marketplace" refers to what
customers choose to buy, not what vendors choose to sell.

We're a leading indicator for a pretty big chunk of the computer
market (ask your sales people).  The CEO of a vendor who just visited
us got an earfull about what windowing system we wanted.

In 1982, I asked Apollo "Where's the UNIX?", in 1986 "Where's the
Ethernet?", and now in 1988 "Where's the NeWS?".  Now they ... well,
you all know that.

X's concept of a window is simply too primitive.  Having rectangular
regions determine where mouse events go just doesn't hack it anymore.
It can't do things I want to do.

That's my opinion and not necessarily my employer's, of course, but I
fully intend to enlighten my employer: it's my job.
--
Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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