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On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:11:26PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Ugh!  I've seen some ugly windowing systems in my time, but X...  Heck, even
> CP/M had a better system, IIRC.  

CP/M didn't have a window system, at least mine didn't.  Hard to do that
in 64K (I had 128K banked with the crt mapped into the 2nd bank).