Message-Id: <200605210616.k4L6GmHe001933@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
To: linux cbon <linuxcbon@yahoo.fr>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: replacing X Window System !
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 May 2006 00:40:56 +0200."
             <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
References: <20060519224056.37429.qmail@web26611.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1148192208_32020P";
	 micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 02:16:48 -0400
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1233
Lines: 38

--==_Exmh_1148192208_32020P
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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?

--==_Exmh_1148192208_32020P
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001

iD8DBQFEcAXQcC3lWbTT17ARAj3rAKDRptu+odTLwGAIey+pzm7BcGxlWQCfXfp0
s1kppyD0i4WoE9nKCK4/x/A=
=s5HU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--==_Exmh_1148192208_32020P--
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/