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From: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Siggraph sillyness
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Date: 9 Aug 89 19:20:42 GMT
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Reply-To: kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen House
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In article  nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
 >A friend typed this in, not me.  I wasn't even *at* SIGGraph.  You
 >might get a laugh out of it.  My feeling about this subject is: If you
 >don't like X, write your own freely copyable windowing system and
 >quit whining.
 >-russ
 >
 >
 >
 >Here's a tidbit from this SIGGraph you should like...
 >
 >These fliers were being scattered from the balconies at the SIGGRAPH
 >reception...

 [ Text of flyer deleted]

 >X windows.  A mistake carried out to perfection.  X windows.
 >Dissatisfaction guaranteed.  X windows.  Don't get frustrated without
 >it.  X windows.  Even your dog won't like it.  X windows.  Flaky and
 >built to stay that way.  X windows.  Complex nonsolutions to simple
 >nonproblems.  X windows.  Flawed beyond belief.  X windows.  Form
 >follows malfunction.  X windows.  Garbage at your fingertips.  X
 >windows.  ignorance is our most important resource.  X windows.  It
 >could be worse, but it'll take time.  X windows.  It could happen to
 >you.  X windows.  Japan's secret weapon.  X windows.  Let it get in
 >*your* way.  X windows.  Live the nightmare.  X windows.  More than
 >enough rope.  X windows.  Never had it, never will.  X windows.  No
 >hardware is safe.  X windows.  Power tools for power fools.  X windows.
 >Power tools for power losers.  X windows.  Putting new limits on
 >productivity.  X windows.  Simplicity made complex.  X windows.  The
 >cutting edge of obsolescence.  X windows.  The art of incompetence.  X
 >windows.  The defacto substandard.  X windows.  The first fully modular
 >software disaster.  X windows.  The joke that kills.  X windows.  The
 >problem for your problem.  X windows.  There's got to be a better way.
 >X windows.  Warn your friends about it.  X windows.  You'd better sit
 >down.  X windows.  You'll envy the dead.

So, I wonder just what exactly X windows is?  If you ask the folks at MIT or
Digital, they only know about a window system named X, or the X Window System.

I've heard someone is calling their version of X "X Windows."  I guess these
people must be flaming about that.

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