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   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-08-26 8:35 p.m., Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:06:17 -0400, -hh wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 8/25/25 01:34, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> None of them did that. That’s the point.   
   >>   
   >> Think you're reaching pretty far back there buddy, back to when Unix   
   >> didn't have any GUI...   
   >   
   > Precisely the point. Once X11 came along, it was embraced as a common GUI   
   > standard among *all* the Unix vendors, even those who had put some effort   
   > into developing quite advanced proprietary concepts of their own (e.g.   
   > Sun’s NeWS).   
   >   
   > So you see, a core part of what made for a “Unix” system was, from quite   
   > early on, modularity and replaceability that extended to the GUI.   
   >   
   > I think Steve Jobs’ NeXT was an exception. Funnily enough, that struggled   
   > to make an impact. His was very much a voice in the wildnerness, until his   
   > company was acquired by a moribund Apple, and he returned as “iCEO” of   
   the   
   > merged organization.   
      
   I watched a documentary about Jobs's time at NeXT. To say the least,   
   they were lucky they survived and that Canon was dumb enough to keep   
   pumping money into the project.   
      
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