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In article <1992Jul24.152516.17404@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> dwd@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (David W. Dykstra) writes:
>I agree that it would have made some difference but I don't think that
>windowing history would have changed drastically.  Layers is too 
>limiting.  It may have had some influence on X but I think X still 
>would have happened.

Fergit X! It would have made quite a difference here.  We were looking
for graphics terminal routines ala Blit, since we had a terminal
analogous to an original Mac with a bigger screen.  X (at the time) was
way too hoggy (still is, in fact :-), and I looked into getting Blit
stuff as a base for us.  Got laughed at, sort of.  We ended up writing
our own, which in fact turned out rather nicely, but it took a hell of a
long time.  The first year and a half was a skunkworks project.  (Maybe
this is how all the best stuff starts anyway?)

It looks like the Mac Quickdraw imaging model grafted to the X networking
model.  Maybe we would have been layers compatible had more of that stuff been
available from the toolchest.  I don't know.  Certainly we've got everything
(and probably then some) that layers offers (over a LAN connection, anyway),
but it was a pain.

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