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From: bh01@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU (Russell Nelson)
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Subject: design goals
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Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 21:44:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 20 21:44:57 1987
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Is one of the design goals of V11 to run on a machine with 16 bit integers?
I sure hope so, because X would be perfect here at Clarkson where our School
of Engineering is putting 75 286 boxes on a network with a wide variety of
machines talking TCP/IP.  And this is just a start.

Microsoft is only promising that they're thinking about starting to write
network transparent graphics.  X is here, but not if it won't run on our
machines.  As I see it, if X can't be ported to a 16 bitter, we either go
without X, or wait until the 286-pin compatible 386 comes out.
-russ