On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 9:40 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:


> We just wanted to be able to have multiple xterms
> and Emacs windows.
>

In fact that's pretty much what I do to this day: I do everything in
terminals and do browsing etc. elsewhere.

At that point, X windows wasn't *flaky* per se, but rem If you got
> the calculations wrong, the image might not be stable, but that wasn't
> a software bug so much as it was a configuration error.
>

However, most configuration errors can't reduce your hardware to a useless
pile of junk, whereas older CRT monitors could definitely be destroyed if
the configuration was too far off nominal.