Am 15.09.2013 16:24, schrieb H. S. Teoh:
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:04:25AM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 15.09.2013 01:35, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:38:52 +0200
"Adam D. Ruppe" <destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, 14 September 2013 at 06:57:23 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Windows and most of the other distros at the time offered: the
ability to install a bare minimum system that could still
function without *requiring* X11
oh god X11 was too brutally slow to use on an older computer
anyway. Windows 95 was actually fast.
An interesting anecdote.
At the begining of my UNIX days, it was a pleasure to use the usual set
of APIs, which tend to be less convoluted than on Windows.
Then I started looking into X11 programming with Xlib and Motif, and
could not believe that they managed to make it even more complex
than any other desktop graphics programming API!
[...]
Once, in college, I had the totally hare-brained idea of *printing* out
the Xlib documentation. Through the department's printer service. It
came out as a stack of paper 6 *inches* thick (you do the math as to how
many pages that is), which I still have today for posterity. :-P
T
I can imagine, I remember the stack of books O'Reilley used to sell.
The department guys were very happy with you I guess. :)
--
Paulo
