From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Classic Unix workstation GUIs
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:28:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120820032814.GV3138@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5031A699.7060302@acm.org>
> It was never commercial, but there was Virtue (later known as the
> Andrew Toolkit, and even later than that known as the Andrew User
> Interface System) - the windowing system developed at Carnegie
> Mellon University as part of the Andrew Project (an early
> campus-wide workstation computing initiative).
CMU did some good stuff. At least they had the oompf to build stuff and
try it. Most places just bitched about how bad things were. CMU tried
to build their own good answer.
I came from Wisconsin and in the same time frame Wisconsin was really busy
hacking the kernel, a lot of the core kernel people at Sun came from
Wisconsin. I watched Mojo (Joe Moran) port BSD to a 68K in about 36 hours.
Didn't know what or who I was watching at the time but he went on to do
the SunOS 4.x VM system, which to this day is what people copy. I had a
lot of very detailed conversations with Linus about that VM system, there
is a lot of Mojo in Linux.
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Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-20 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-20 2:40 Michael Kerpan
2012-08-20 2:53 ` Pat Barron
2012-08-20 3:28 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2012-08-20 3:05 ` Larry McVoy
2012-09-11 6:58 ` Aaron J. Grier
2012-09-11 8:03 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-09-11 8:41 ` Pierre DAVID
2012-09-11 12:12 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2012-09-11 12:40 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-09-11 12:55 ` Pierre DAVID
2012-09-11 19:30 ` Aaron J. Grier
2012-09-12 5:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2012-09-12 10:20 ` arnold
2012-09-12 11:13 ` Armando Stettner
2012-09-13 6:58 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-09-13 10:22 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-08-21 13:46 William von Hagen
2012-08-21 14:25 ` Larry McVoy
2012-08-21 17:54 ` ron
2012-08-21 17:56 ` Larry McVoy
2012-08-23 21:23 ` asbesto
2012-08-24 0:00 ` Michael Kerpan
2012-08-31 17:54 ` asbesto
2012-08-28 13:17 Berny G
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