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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: X sucks (was: Re: Ware Ware Wizardjin)
Message-ID: <SVXAX_D@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <9104072151.AA28702@gaia> <128236@uunet.UU.NET> <15785@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr15.000020.21915@digibd.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 91 18:35:34 GMT

In article <1991Apr15.000020.21915@digibd.com> rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes:
> 	OK, I'll bite. WHERE is a window system that will run on all
> 	the systems X currently does, provides miraculous performance
> 	AND is easy to learn and for vendors to support?

Doesn't exist. Why? Because bad money drives out good. Where is the
incentive to do a better job than X if it won't buy you anything. Even
Sun has pretty much given up on NeWS (though why NeXT didn't polish
NeWS instead of starting from scratch only Steve Jobs can explain).

> 	I've heard ALOT of complaints about how bad X is, WHY doesn't
> 	anybody do something about it?

Sun did. Look where it got them. They've now gotta remain backwards
compatible with 3 window systems.
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