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Subject: Re: syscons driver 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Dec 1995 08:48:00 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:29:40 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Besides this i consider X (and curses) the only portable environment to use
> if i ever were to write something GUIsh - this is no offense - i would never
> lock my application into something so proprietary as a GUI library for VGAs.

You don't need to.  Your GUI-ish application, if written *correctly*,
should know absolutely nothing about X or any other underlying
graphics implementation.

						Jordan