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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: syscons driver 
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Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:39:47 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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: You don't need to.  Your GUI-ish application, if written *correctly*,
: should know absolutely nothing about X or any other underlying
: graphics implementation.

I know of several toolkits (and worked on one) where this was true to
a greater or lessor degree....  It is a desirable goal since you can
retarget more easily when the toolkit api doesn't have any Xcentric
parts to it.

Warner