From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:58:34 +0200
Subject: [TUHS] Can someone advise me regarding a gui for UNIX
Message-ID: <200210122001.g9CK1Dj28305@lmail.actcom.co.il>

Another reason the 5620 was botched so badly was that AT&T wanted >=
$2000 for the development kit (read: C compiler and libraries) for it.
Not a good way to get lots of 3rd party application developers
on your bandwagon.

I used one for a year or so; it was the first windowing system I'd
used and the only one I've really liked. For about 10 years I've been
using 9wm, which gives a similar feel (at least to me). Those who want
to go all the way should adopt 9term as well.  (I generally run xterm +
bash these days, although for a long while it was 9term + es/rc.)

Somewhere, I have an X version of the 5620 font.  I found that it
wasn't so pretty. I've been using the pelm-latin1-9 font from the sam
distribution for years.

Norman forgot to mention that the most long-lived split-design application
is Rob Pike's sam editor, still available for X11 and still in use on
Plan 9.

Arnold