Ultrix 4.2
trost at reed.edu
trost at reed.edu
Tue Jun 25 10:48:56 AEST 1991
What is this anal retentive wish to build the MIT server anyway??
DEC's servers are faster, more reliable, and supported!!!!
1) Because I'd rather run X, and not this "DECWindows" thing somebody
dreamed up. Occassionally we play with DECWindows a bit when we
install a new release of Ultrix. The server under Ultrix 4.0 was
either painting or scrolling both xterms and emacses improperly,
and every once in a while a moved window would leave behind an
immovable region. Sorta sounds like a violation of the spec to
me....
(I'd be interested to hear what people know about this problem, by
the way)
2) Because DEC decided to be obnoxiously cute with some of the
software. You disable the DIGITAL banner on the login screen by
setting the correct resource, and the session manager inserts a
sleep of several seconds before starting the user's session. I
don't need this kind of sleazy cruft.
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