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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Use of select in NeWS.
Message-ID: <20164@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 24 Feb 88 18:11:50 GMT
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Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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In-reply-to: wesommer@athena.mit.edu's message of 24 Feb 88 15:18:51 GMT



>Perhaps they weren't _that_ concerned with portability, or else they
>wanted to make sure than NeWS ran better on their hardware than on
>anything else (so everyone buys their hardware to get the best
>version..).
>
>					- Bill

Yeah Bill, great plot heh! It would probably take 10 or 15 minutes to
track down the select() bug thereby crushing the competition by
forcing a late release...And I suppose Athena puts all those NULL
pointer bugs into X-windows as a plot to force people to buy Vaxes!

C'mon, I can't believe you said this, do you really believe this is
true?

	-Barry Shein, Boston University