From: Stephen Clark <sclark46@earthlink.net>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:40:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a570df52-c0fd-3e29-dec4-294aa1b32dc0@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210127154742.GB4227@mcvoy.com>
On 1/27/21 10:47 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 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).
Neither did mine I had an original Altair 8800 I had built and started with CP/M
2.2 then upgraded to 3.0 and wrote my
own bios and flashed into a prom board I had built from kit. Computers were sure
a lot simpler in those days.
--
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety,
deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin)
"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty
decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)
"Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy!" (Ben Franklin)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-27 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 16:14 ron minnich
2021-01-24 16:24 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-01-24 17:04 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-24 18:36 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 20:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 20:54 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 21:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 23:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-25 0:18 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 0:36 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-25 0:41 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 20:45 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-24 21:11 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 21:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-24 21:22 ` [TUHS] Apollo (was NeWS) Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 21:25 ` [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS? Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 22:53 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-24 23:33 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-25 0:11 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-25 0:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-25 14:38 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-25 15:31 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-25 15:55 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-25 16:04 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 16:37 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-25 16:49 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-25 17:11 ` Bakul Shah
2021-01-25 17:25 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-29 20:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-29 20:31 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 23:46 ` John Gilmore
2021-01-29 19:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-25 22:25 ` Rob Gingell
2021-01-26 1:38 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-27 3:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-27 3:54 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-27 5:15 ` George Michaelson
2021-01-27 5:52 ` George Michaelson
2021-01-27 5:48 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 6:19 ` Henry Bent
2021-01-27 7:28 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-27 10:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-27 18:32 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 19:26 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-27 15:47 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-27 16:40 ` Stephen Clark [this message]
2021-01-26 2:45 ` John Cowan
2021-01-27 19:34 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-29 22:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-30 1:50 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-31 2:42 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-30 3:51 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-30 23:20 ` John Cowan
2021-01-25 15:48 ` Henry Bent
2021-01-25 14:33 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-24 23:50 ` Ed Carp
2021-01-24 21:29 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-24 21:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-02-14 2:04 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-14 2:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-14 4:53 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 18:41 ` Toby Thain
2021-01-24 18:24 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-24 18:42 ` arnold
2021-01-24 19:11 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 21:07 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 21:10 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 22:30 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 21:16 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-28 2:48 Norman Wilson
2021-01-28 9:24 Noel Chiappa
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