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Subject: Re: We never promised you a rose garden
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Date: 22 Apr 89 17:55:06 GMT
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    How is it that X is heralded as portable when it's got so much BSD stuff
    baked into it?

There is a distinction between having the interfaces designed so that they
are relatively OS independent, and structuring the sample code that so that
it is straightforward to port it to a new OS, and supplying sample code that
actually works on a variety of OSes.  We try reasonably hard on the first two,
the latter only comes as we have resources and inclination.  The sample code
works on a variety of BSDish systems because people have contributed the code;
the same cannot be said for SYSV.