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From: jeff@lorrie.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff Bowden)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT machine has been announced! (long)
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Date: 14 Oct 88 23:30:01 GMT
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In-reply-to: ken@gatech.edu's message of 14 Oct 88 10:54:51 GMT

In article <17485@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:

>In article <5806@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
>>in article <360@elan.UUCP>, jlo@elan.UUCP (Jeff Lo) says:
>>Nit #2: Bemoaning "No X windows!" is silly. From what I hear,
>>X-windows is slow, clumsy, huge, and, generally, Typical University
>  From what you heard, eh?  Well, perhaps X may be desirable 
>  because there is a huge amount of work being done on it in
>  the academic world, and there is a substantial amount of
>  software running under X.

I don't think a lack of X support from NeXT will be that damaging even
to those who want to use X.  Do you actually think no one will write a
NeXT driver for X?  After all it is a 68030 running something that can
basically be viewed as Unix (from the program point of view).  

It won't even be necessary to choose between X and NeXT on a NeXT machine
because you will probably be able to run X from within NeXT (like you can
from within SunView).  Perhaps you will even be able to run X in its own
window.