System V Release 4.0 Developer Conferences

[Mike Hoegeman]

In article <1988Sep26.213223.407 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
 >In article <8570 at smoke.ARPA> gwyn at brl.arpa ...
 >
...etc...
 >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.
 >

Could You explain this? I don't understand why this would be so. Last
time I looked NeWS and X did'nt need much in the way of kernel support.
This is supposedly one of their strengths. thanks.


-mike