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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A question (and a comment) regarding X11 and UNIX.
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Date: 12 Mar 90 00:27:52 GMT
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In <13618@baldrick.udel.EDU>, XFH09@ccvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   I also have a comment to Commodore about X11: I have noticed that
>nearly all of the more powerful UNIX systems include X11 as standard.
>This includes HP, the Apollo systems (before they were bought by HP)
>and the DECstation systems from DEC.  For Commodore to not do the
>same, and also include X11 as standard with all of their Amiga UNIX
>systems, would be a mistake -- IMHO.

According to a spec sheet (prominently marked as preliminary), Amix will indeed
come with X, in addition to Open Look and CBM's own windowing system.

Sometimes a question is better than an assumption.

-larry

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