Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 Developer Conferences Message-ID: <5634@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 28 Sep 88 09:17:31 GMT References: <167@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <1988Sep22.173745.14647@utzoo.uucp> <8570@smoke.ARPA> <1988Sep26.213223.407@utzoo.uucp> <9733@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Sender: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 12 In-reply-to: greg@orbity.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Greg Cooper) In article <1988Sep26.213223.407@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >quoting a friend of his... > >ABI implies that a conforming machine must have kernel support for both >NeWS *and* X. This is ridiculous for people who plan to run neither. I heard it as: If the V5R4 unix supports ANY window system, it has to support both X and NeWS. --