Re: [dev] The Apollo Display Manager [very long]

2011-06-25 Thread Gregor Best
Thanks a lot for this insightful and very interesting story. It's one of those (sadly few) jewels that from time to time come across this mailing list. -- $l=\n;$p=q-sub r{rand}sub c{((shift)**2+(shift)**2)1}while( $i++=$s){$t++if c r,r}die(Gregor Best, 0xDB9F9A7C, .($t/$s*

Re: [dev] The Apollo Display Manager [very long]

2011-06-25 Thread John Yates
I have no idea how I've never heard of this, The adage is that the victors get to write history. Apollo was a single company peddling a proprietary technology. At the time that it started Unix was offered only to academic institutions. There was no way to foresee that the consent decree

[dev] The Apollo Display Manager [very long]

2011-06-24 Thread John Yates
While following the st and editor threads I felt prompted to put down these reminiscences. My hope is that they will stimulate the discussion. /john INTRODUCTION Many years ago I worked at Apollo Computer.[APOLLO] This was before X, NFS, Sun workstations or Apple Macintoshes; when Unix

Re: [dev] The Apollo Display Manager [very long]

2011-06-24 Thread Kurt H Maier
I have no idea how I've never heard of this, but this is almost exactly what has been in my head for a long time. It would be almost trivial to introduce a sane mouse interface to this idea, and then build all kinds of applications that lever the separation of streams. -- # Kurt H Maier