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A standard which the XConsortium is currently (January 1997) developing and plansto release soon as an open standard. A prime goal is to bemore bandwidth-efficient and easier to develop for (and toport) than the X Window System, which has been widelydescribed as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered andincredibly over-complicated. (http://x.org/consortium/broadway.html).