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Originally Posted by Lind1e View Post
If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles - but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.
-- Marcus J. Ranum, Digital Equipment Corporation

which is rather funny.
HAH! It's funny, alright. To think that the more open X Window System (singular, not plural, btw) is still here while Digital's GEM is gone to obscure history.
 

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