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# New Abstractions

- ## Original X architecture was unlayered, DDX was required to provide all functionality

- ## Backing store added at Berkeley was clunky

- ## Software cursors implemented many different times in different DDXes.

- ## “Wrapping" and multiple devPrivates added

- ## Backing store reworked to use new mechanisms

- ## MI software cursor code used new mechanisms

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