X11 bashing

[Peter da Silva]

In article <1991Apr25.022055.27604 at neon.Stanford.EDU> sidana at neon.Stanford.EDU (Ashmeet S Sidana) writes:
> But herein lies the problem. X was NOT designed to provide a
> user-interface.  One of the goals of the original design WAS
> separation of policy and mechanism. So saying "X did it wrong" is
> incorrect. What they set out to do they achieved.

That's right. The spec was right for a research system. It was, however,
quite wrong for a commercial system. The problem isn't X, it's all the
lazy manufacturers (and customers) who are using X outside its design
goals.

I don't care about the politics. I just want something that works without
multiple megabytes of duplicated effort. Commercial X is like multiuser
DOS: a horrible waste of resources. A good commercial windowing system
should be able to run in a $500 box: server, apps, the whole thing.
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