Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: replacing X Window System ! | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 02:16:48 -0400 |
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On Sat, 20 May 2006 00:40:56 +0200, linux cbon said:
> Unix was not designed for graphics.
Rather amusing, given that Dennis Ritchie has a different memory of it:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html
He seems to think that one of the original motivating forces for Unix was to provide a development environment for a PDP-7, so that they could support the graphics terminal for a game called 'Space Travel'.
So if anything, Unix was designed specifically *for* graphics.
Now who should I believe here, dmr or an apparent troll? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |