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From: ktly@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
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Subject: Re: X windows on the nExt
Summary: No significant software?
Keywords: X windows
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Date: 13 Apr 89 22:03:54 GMT
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In article <19516@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley) writes:
>	According to the latest InfoWorld, NeXT has been talking to MIT (okay,
>the X Consortium) about porting X to the NeXT.  X applications would run under
>the NeXT Step environment if I read it correctly.  The article pointed out that
>at this point they are talking it over and trying to figure out who should do
>what.  No code work has been done as far as InfoWorld knew.
>James Conley
>Indiana University Computer Science
>jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu

	When I spoke with Jobs during his visit to Cornell in February, he
said that NeXT wouldn't offer a version of X because, "there isn't a signif-
icant body of software that runs under X-Windows."  He did mention that MIT
may be doing a version, though.

	-Jonathan

P.S.  Does anybody remember Jobs ridiculing mice with more than one button
      soon after the Mac came out?