From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [TUHS] Classic Unix workstation GUIs
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:58:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAAFC4F-5311-40F4-A696-999B6B31B36A@tfeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209121020.q8CAKIIK022697@freefriends.org>
On 12 Sep 2012, at 11:20, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> I believe that the original Sun Windowing system also predated widespread
> use of X Windows.
I used this (I remember it having various names: was it originally Suntools but then later Sunview?) in 1988-89, and my wife will remember earlier history than that (she ran the first Sun in Scotland).
There was some big performance thing that happened to X: X existed by the time I used Suns, but it was just catastrophically slow - I had a 3/50 without the secret extra memory you could get and you really *had* to use Suntools on that because X was just unusable (you could quite easily understand what order things like menus got drawn in by watching). Then, I think, X11R3 (might have been not that release but a later one) came out, and it was acceptably quick, and everyone changed except for a few holdouts.
--tim
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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
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 [this message]
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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