Re: replacing X Window System !

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Sun May 21 2006 - 02:17:31 EST


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?

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