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On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 22:14:12 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
<invalid@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following:

>
>But, AFAICT, that's the only reason behind the behavior for a lot of
>Windows apps.  Authors of X apps don't seem to suffer from such
>delusions of grandeur (or maybe it's just too hard under under X).
>
	Or maybe influenced by the facet that X-Window is a full client/server
model where the display engine is the server, and multiple applications
(which could even be on different computers) are the clients.

	In contrast, M$ Windows tends to make each application responsible for
its windows via a DLL, but doesn't really have an overall display server.
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