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Re: X or how terminology sucks.

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From: William Unruh
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:00
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In <5hmt5d$r9u$2@trsvr.tr.unisys.com> benjamin.romer@unisys.com (Benjamin Romer) writes:

*>I wasn't asking for a PM-based X Server, what I want is an OS/2 based
*>system running X Windows as its primary UI, e.g. replace PM with X. This 
*>would add a great deal of value to the system as a whole, increase 

XFree86. It's free even. Course there are not many programs in the OS2
world that use X as their display environment, but that of course is not
your question.
Ie, you can run OS2 using X as the GUI.
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Bill Unruh
unruh@physics.ubc.ca
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From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Subject: Re: X or how terminology sucks.
Date: 1997/03/31
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