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Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:17:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: linux cbon <linuxcbon@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: replacing X Window System !
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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 --- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu a ?crit : 
> 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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