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Subject: Re: A breath of fresh air..
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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.


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