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From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:29:20 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] X and NeWS history (long)
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> On Sep 12, 2017, at 3:11 PM, Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> As
> a result, the X API is wide and shallow like the Mac, and full of interesting
> race conditions to boot.  The whole thing could have been done with less than
> a dozen API calls.


Unix still needs a decent graphics API (ideally one that can work over a network).
Any thoughts on that?