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Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:44
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In <adtDCnAwB.Ety@netcom.com> adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes:

>Dan Pop (Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch) wrote:
>
>: The X server simply couldn't care less about your monitor's specs, if
>: it weren't for your own protection.  There is no way for the server to
>: query the monitor about its specs, so you have to supply this data 
>: yourself.
>
>Actually the X development team doesn't have the resources or talent to 
>provide a more reasonable installation like Windows or Mac. Their 
>solution is to pass the hard stuff off to the user.

Actually you're completely clueless and haven't understood _anything_
of the design philosophy of XFree86.  If it were to provide the same
functionality as Windows, it wouldn't have needed any configuration files
at all.  But it was designed with a different goal in mind and for a
different audience.  Guys like you should stick to Windows; XFree86 is
_not_ for them.  It's as simple as this.

Sorry to have wasted time and bandwidth trying to explain some simple
facts to a Windows bonehead.

Dan
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Dan Pop
CERN, CN Division
Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch 
Mail:  CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 16:44:56 GMT