Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:32:07 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "James Howard" <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu>, "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Konstantinos Konstantinidis" <kkonstan@duth.gr>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air.. Message-ID: <024801c17fcb$351f0ac0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0112071730170.8200-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> <006c01c17f70$8782de50$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101005b837406671a6@[10.0.1.16]> <00de01c17fa1$06539e10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a0510100cb83754b63467@[10.0.1.16]> <015f01c17fae$74ebc4d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a0510101bb837670c807d@[10.0.1.16]> <01c101c17fb8$db2cc960$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <a05101027b8377b914fad@[10.0.1.16]>
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Brad writes: > Because Aqua is available. Available? You're saying it was written and ready to go before Apple started work on OS X? I thought it was specifically written for that OS, or perhaps I'm confusing terms. > The only reason to have X is to maintain backward > compatibility. Compatibility with open-source and open standards, you mean, as opposed to the proprietary Apple future? > Tell me -- under Windows, if you remove > everything that is not MS-DOS but the one > program named "win", will the GUI still operate? I never tried it, but I suspect not. But no one tried to say that Windows was just a standard MS-DOS system with a few extra programs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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