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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by DonHopkins on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:58AM (#24200273)
“X is rasterop on wheels” — Bill Joy in Unix Today 6/25 page 5.

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-info.txt

"..., Richie reminded the audience that Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that X was brain-dead and would soon die.

"He was half-right," Ritchie said. "Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks."

http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/1332...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22502125

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Re:Xplain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us (2017) by bitwize on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:48PM (#24204158)
Thankfully, not only do we have a modern replacement for X in Wayland, we also have a modern replacement for NeWS. It's called "the browser"/Electron.
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