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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!scslwide!wsgw!wsservra!daemon
  2. From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Lin)
  3. Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
  4. Subject: Opinions of X
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov15.213028.29720@sm.sony.co.jp>
  6. Date: 15 Nov 92 21:30:28 GMT
  7. Sender: daemon@sm.sony.co.jp (The devil himself)
  8. Distribution: fj
  9. Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
  10. Lines: 18
  11. Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
  12.  
  13. Date: 15 Nov 92 01:40:46 GMT
  14. Message-Id: <1992Nov15.014046.16078@eng.umd.edu>
  15. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  16. Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
  17.  
  18.  
  19.     Does anybody think there are alternative windowing programs on par
  20. with X that will be developed in the future, or will so much work
  21. and time that people have invested in learning X prevent anything
  22. drastically or moderately different from being developed?
  23.  
  24.     What would a new windowing system have to do that would make
  25. it competitive with X?  I can think of two issues that seem to
  26. determine the success of a system, price and portability.
  27.  
  28. --
  29. Charles Lin
  30. clin@eng.umd.edu
  31.