xinit under A/UX
    Jordan Hayes 
    jordan at Morgan.COM
       
    Mon Oct 15 05:35:14 AEST 1990
    
    
  
Steve Peters <peters at Apple.Apple.COM> writes:
	Our X Window System product provides a startup script called
	"X" (which after much sanity checking, invokes XmacII). IMHO,
	linking the name X to the server binary is asking for trouble
I don't really care who forgot to get familiar with X11 at Apple before
trying to market and support a vendor product, but traditionally the X
server is called X.  Call your script something else, but leave
well-accepted conventions alone.
Try "man X" on any reasonable vendor's machine.
-----
  "X is a window system, not a program"
	-- ...
  "You can't be compatible by being incompatible"
	-- usually reserved for explaining another mis-feature of AIX
	   to IBM FEs, but certainly could be applied here ...
/jordan
    
    
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