mån 2020-09-07 klockan 11:43 -0700 skrev Chris Hanson via cctalk: > On Sep 7, 2020, at 6:24 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > The description I have for AUIS (6.3.1) is: > > > > "AUIS (Andrew User Interface System) - compound document > > environment offering a word processor, mail/bulletin board > > reader/writer, drawing editor, spreadsheet, font editor, > > application builder, and many other facilities" > > > > Again, an application, not a windowing system per se. > > Yes, the Andrew environment implemented proper layering, so ATK was > made to work atop X and the applications (messages, ez, console, > typescript, etc.) came along. > > At Carnegie Mellon in the early 1990s, you could (with only a little > work, to use a console rather than graphical login) use either X or > wm on some of the campus workstations. On a DECstation 3100 running > Ultrix, if you weren’t going to run any X applications wm was *much* > more responsive. I wasn’t around when the clusters had Sun-3 or IBM > RT hardware but I can imagine the differences there were even more > pronounced. (With wm, a DECstation felt as much faster than a Mac II > as it actually was…)
The hackers in the lab in Umeå Sweden said the same thing about X11 vs Sunview on the lab's 3/60 and 3/80 machines compared with the 1(+?). Running Sun's debug tool (in its sunview version) on a 3/60 were ok, no lag dito starting sunview's cmdtool , while xterm werent so snappy on the same machine.
