Re: bigger, sexier, more phly debian...

[Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com>]

> its time, I don't think there are any aspects of NeXTStep that aren't available
> in the X environment.  In addition, the network transparency of X is not (to my

Early versions of NeXTstep (2.x I guess, whatever ran on Black Cubes :-) 
Did in fact have network transparency - and even less access control
than X does. Mostly got used for hacking people, as far as I could
ever tell.

NeXTstep did win on a few things:
	1) remote execution of code on the server, for tight feedback loops
	2) *device independent graphics* which X does not have! X has
portable device dependency - you get all of the details to figure out
for yourself (mutated a bit - as Don Hopkins put it, "The X rendering
model assumes that all displays are VAX framebuffers on acid.")
Display Postscript might compensate for this limitation, I don't know
yet. 

Of course, this indicates nothing about the acceptance or usefulness
of GNUstep... which, if it depends on the use of Objective C the way
NeXTstep did, is probably not going anywhere :-)