Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing)

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp
Mon Apr 15 22:37:37 AEST 1991


In article <26550 at adm.brl.mil>
	preece at urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) writes:

>Most of the critics have failed to suggest what they would have liked to
>see as a windowing interface instead of X.

You have failed to suggest the other alternative: not to use any window
system.

I have been using character terminals for many years, because I don't
think window system gives effecient developping environment. I often
irretated to see someone using window system ineffeciently.

>The performance and resource costs of X are being addressed in several
>ways, by the X Consortium, by the various vendors of add-on toolkits,
>and by platform vendors selling X-based products;  major algorithm
>changes, reconsideration of resource allocation policies, and the
>growing availability of shared libraries should make the next release a
>significant improvement over X11R4.

Shared library is NO solution. It only moves complexity, unstability
and ineffeciency of X to UNIX.

With rationally small environment, like mine, shared library is of no
use, which keeps UNIX simple.

						Masataka Ohta



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