Mail Archives: opendos/1997/05/15/16:04:20
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> Frankly, if OpenDOS shipped with anything X, my first
> step in OD installation would be to delete X. If
> it were an option, I'd skip it in every possible use
> for OD I've seen so far. Somebody needs to come up
> with a replacement for X, and fast. It needs to
> be constructed to be fairly easy to emulate Win32.
> X emulation would be good but not vital. It needs
> to be well-written. If somebody does it, I think
> Unix will rise again. If not, I think better
> operating systems will replace it, eventually.
> In the long run, I don't think Microsoft can do it;
> but in the short run, they're making progress.
One of the only reasons I have to run X here is that I author HTML as part
of my job, and have to test it with a graphical browser. Also using GIMP
and XV for image composition. Also the occasionnal RealAudio listening to
TheDJ or something (boy, do I love cable modems!).
I like the client/server concept in X. I think it is wrong to merge
multitasking code into windowing subsystem like MS-Windows does. But I'd
like something that I can look at and not barf. I'd like do be able to do
drag-and-drop in an "of course you can!" manner. Hardware independent
display like the Macintosh, probably using similar to Display PostScript.
Pierre Phaneuf
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be
regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsger W. Dijkstra.
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