X sucks (was: Re: Ware Ware Wizardjin)

Guy Middleton gamiddle at watmath.waterloo.edu
Thu Apr 11 05:42:43 AEST 1991


X does suck, but its popularity seems inevitable, since it doesn't cost any
money.  Other, better systems could have become the de facto standard, had
they been as cheap.  Of the set of free, reasonably portable, reasonably
hardware-independent window systems that have been available since
workstation hardware became affordable, X seems to be the best.  Of course,
that set has only one member.

 -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo		gamiddleton at watmath.waterloo.edu
		(+1 519 885 1211 x3472)		gamiddleton at watmath.uwaterloo.ca



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