Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 14:17:41 +0200 (CEST) | From | linux cbon <> | Subject | Re: replacing X Window System ! |
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--- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu a écrit : > 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?
hi,
unix only provided the tools to write the game in assembly. No graphic system or environment. Guis were invented in Xerox PARC and not in Unix.
Who wrote "The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you."
Regards
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