"Daryle Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [...]
> Yikes!!  The "X" in "Mac OS X" has NOTHING to do with X-Windows!

I didn't mean to suggest that it does.

> (The Mac's "X" is for the Roman numeral for "ten".)  Macs use an
> independent GUI API.  But, like Windows, there are programs that
> allow X-Windows programs to work on Macs.

Oh, one of my die-hard Mac programmer friends told me that OS X
was using X, but with their own custom X server (and widget set,
and window manager, obviously).

Dave




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