ctr@xpiinc.UUCP (Christian Reimer, ctr@xpiinc.uu.net) (09/01/89)
>>I don't see any DECwindows toolkit calls here, do you? <ctr@xpiinc.uu.net> >>Using the term "DECwindows" gives the impression that you are talking >>about some proprietary DEC system, not the freely distributed X Window System. >This is unnecessary harassment... <graham@fuel.dec.com> I'm sorry if it seemed so. I agree that the confusion betweenn DECwindows and X is unfortunate, but it is real. I can't count the number of times in the last month that I've had to tell people "DECwindows IS X". [I did not mean to imply that this was DEC's fault -- I'm really flaming at "the marketplace"...] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Reimer || Visual Technology (XPI Division) || "Dwn wth vwls!" ctr@xpiinc.uu.net | uunet!xpiinc!ctr || ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (09/04/89)
In article <8909011429.AA07331@wimpy.XPI.uu.net>, ctr@xpiinc.UUCP (Christian Reimer, ctr@xpiinc.uu.net) writes:
<
< >>I don't see any DECwindows toolkit calls here, do you? <ctr@xpiinc.uu.net>
< >>Using the term "DECwindows" gives the impression that you are talking
< >>about some proprietary DEC system, not the freely distributed X Window System.
< I'm sorry if it seemed so.
<
< I agree that the confusion betweenn DECwindows and X is unfortunate, but it is
< real. I can't count the number of times in the last month that I've had to tell
< people "DECwindows IS X".
Isn't this just the sort of statement that is causing the confusion in
the first place?
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