![]() ![]() X-Windows started out as one man’s project in an office on the fifth floor of MIT’s Laboratory for Computer Science. X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster Even the vanilla X11R4 “xclock” utility consumed 656K to run. X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats - like Sun’s Open Look clock tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn’t have enough to tell you the time. Divisive dependencies, distributed deadlocks, and partisan protocols have tightened gridlocks, aggravated race conditions, and promulgated double standards. Years of “Voodoo Ergonomics” have resulted in an unprecedented memory deficit of gargantuan proportions. X-Windows is to memory as Ronald Reagan was to money. ![]() X-Windows is the Iran-Contra of graphical user interfaces: a tragedy of political compromises, entangled alliances, marketing hype, and just plain greed. If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles - but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. ![]() #Xwindow dclock colors how toThe UNIX-HATERS Handbook, Including a UNIX Barf Bag How to make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC ![]()
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