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" <[email protected]> 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 -- If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. -- Software disclaimer notice
