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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Are you sure you really want to do this? [n]
Message-ID: <8419@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 90 00:04:04 GMT
Organization: Roadkills-R-Us
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In article <13324@granite.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:
|Now ask yourself what might happen if Sun were to donate the source to 
|X11/NeWS to the MIT X Consortium, just for the sake of promoting it as a
|superior technology that wasn't under Sun's complete control anymore...  
|After all, Sun's done something similar with control of the Sparc processor 
|architecture... And AT&T is doing something vaguely similar with SvR4...  
|So ask yourself what might happen if X11R5 (or X12 or something) were 
|based on the merged NeWS/X server...  Then ask yourself how we might make 
|this happen...

Then buy some stock in a DRAM manufacturer.

I can deal with X11 memory usage, but a portable NeWS/X server?

(shudder)

Of course, I'd love to WORK on one, if anyone were taking resumes...

-Miles