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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: Why I'm suspicious of X
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Date: 25 Feb 88 22:59:09 GMT
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In article <1684@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>The biggest flaw with X, of course, is its baroque complexity.

Not to my mind.  The biggest (the *definitive*) flaw of X is that it
can only do rectangular windows.  X can't do what I want; NeWS can.
That makes the choice simple.

>At this point, a lot of this is moot.  The NeWS/X war is going to be won
>in the marketplace, not on the technical front.  I think I see a lead for
>X, because the variety of companies that support it is larger.

The marketplace judgement is what customers choose to buy, not what
vendors choose to sell.  More than one vendor has arrived proclaiming
"X!" and left mumbling "NeWS".

Anyway, the real answer to "Best window system, NeWS or X" is "both".

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Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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