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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!lsl!snail
  2. From: snail@lsl.co.uk
  3. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  4. Subject: Re: Opinions of X
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov20.184757.2666@lsl.co.uk>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 17:47:57 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov15.014046.16078@eng.umd.edu>
  8. Organization: Laser-Scan Ltd., Cambridge
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  11. In article <1992Nov15.014046.16078@eng.umd.edu>, clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin) writes:
  12. >     What would a new windowing system have to do that would make
  13. > it competitive with X?  I can think of two issues that seem to
  14. > determine the success of a system, price and portability.
  15.  
  16. Well on the latter sentence, X is the cheapest (free) system and is also the
  17. most widely ported windowing system in the world.
  18. -- 
  19. snail@lsl.co.uk      
  20.  
  21. "para-phrasing an American's .sig"....
  22. For the record, I did not vote for Bill Clinton
  23. :-)
  24.