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From: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Re^2: Gadgets in Motif
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Date: 19 Aug 89 00:39:45 GMT
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In-reply-to: jcb@frisbee.Sun.COM (Jim Becker)

In article <122257@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, jcb@frisbee (Jim Becker) writes:
>... How has it happened that so many intelligent
>people have assumed that windows are a cheap resource that can be used
>freely?

I thought that "the X Window System" was spec'ed that way?  Are you
implying that some implementations have failed to meet system design
goals?

Bill
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