From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:51:43 -0800 From: geoff@collyer.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 18593014-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I wonder why people were so fascinated in the 1980s with huge programs that do very little. The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. -K Thompson Mach 3.0 certainly did very little for you. I remember reading the code, looking for someplace that actually did something other than packing function arguments into structs and calling something else.