stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters) (02/15/88)
In article <3a06a194.c32@apollo.uucp> dawson@apollo writes >Most important of all it the fact that the marketplace has chosen X as the >industry standard window system. Ahem ... I do believe that "chosen by the marketplace" refers to what customers choose to buy, not what vendors choose to sell. We're a leading indicator for a pretty big chunk of the computer market (ask your sales people). The CEO of a vendor who just visited us got an earfull about what windowing system we wanted. In 1982, I asked Apollo "Where's the UNIX?", in 1986 "Where's the Ethernet?", and now in 1988 "Where's the NeWS?". Now they ... well, you all know that. X's concept of a window is simply too primitive. Having rectangular regions determine where mouse events go just doesn't hack it anymore. It can't do things I want to do. That's my opinion and not necessarily my employer's, of course, but I fully intend to enlighten my employer: it's my job. -- Dick St.Peters GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@ge-crd.arpa uunet!steinmetz!stpeters