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From: cairnss@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Queenie)
Subject: Re: OpenStep for $100
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tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes:

>A smart person may ask, "If the GUI/interface builder is so great, then why
>doesn't NeXT pull that off the OS and make it the product?". OpenStep is the
>first attempt to make the interface a widely used standard like X. It is
>possible in the future that NeXT will sell the interface builder for other
>GUIs (don't expect them to ever give this one out free).

>--mark.

NextStep also faces the X standard.  I don't see many applications
which are designed to use all of the features of NextStep, Other
than Mathematica, et c.  So you are left with the X emulation to
run X applications on your overpriced OS.  

Any machine running X would do as much, lacking the glorified
desktop GUI. 

-- 
You too Brutus?