Re: Requirements for reliable message delivery

jim - i think we pretty much are in agreement, but one question:

> Thousands of graphics apps have been built on top of X: the point being,
> for the domain of graphics, one protocol was designed to support (almost)
> all comers, and we succeeded at that up until about 1993.  Keith Packard
> and I are conspiring to try to update X again to get back to that level
> of universality (X, right now, does not include translucent windows,
> which it needs, and a few other items, though Keith's recent work has
> added antialised text and graphics with alpha blending, based on and
> extending beyond Rob Pike's Plan 9 work).

what happened exactly in 93? in general, once you start winning, it's hard
to stop winning...

/mtr