Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2006 16:05:25 -0700 (PDT) | From | alan <> | Subject | Re: replacing X Window System ! |
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On Tue, 16 May 2006, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2006 15:19:16 PDT, alan said: > >> First of all, your assumptions are incorrect. Modern versions of X are >> not old, unoptimised, will do remote sessions, etc. > > Remote sessions have been there as long as the DISPLAY environment variable - I > think even X10.4, 2 decades and more ago, could do that. I know that it worked > just fine 18 years ago with X11R1 (aah... building that from source on a 25mz > Sun3 took a little while). (Anybody know when the first instance of > pointing 'xmelt' at another user's machine for amusement was? :)
Yep. I know. Most people don't seem to know that X was designed to do remote connections very early on.
> It's interesting that almost every attempt to devise something "better than X" > always seems to get as far as an Xterm-alike, an XClock-alike, a primitive > window manager, and 2 or 3 toy demo programs. Then, unless you're Microsoft > or Apple, you discover that doing a complete window system is *hard*.....
"Those who do not learn the lessons of X are doomed to reimpliment them badly."
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