meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) (01/04/90)
In article <13324@granite.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes: |Now ask yourself what might happen if Sun were to donate the source to |X11/NeWS to the MIT X Consortium, just for the sake of promoting it as a |superior technology that wasn't under Sun's complete control anymore... |After all, Sun's done something similar with control of the Sparc processor |architecture... And AT&T is doing something vaguely similar with SvR4... |So ask yourself what might happen if X11R5 (or X12 or something) were |based on the merged NeWS/X server... Then ask yourself how we might make |this happen... Then buy some stock in a DRAM manufacturer. I can deal with X11 memory usage, but a portable NeWS/X server? (shudder) Of course, I'd love to WORK on one, if anyone were taking resumes... -Miles