Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Why do so many "great" people dislike X? Message-ID: Date: 10 Sep 90 04:01:28 GMT References: <9009071813.AA04208@islanders.> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 27 In-reply-to: fgreco@govt.shearson.COM's message of 7 Sep 90 18:13:19 GMT In article <9009071813.AA04208@islanders.> fgreco@govt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) writes: | Bill, | The guys at MIT are doing a fantastic, if not unbelievable, job with X. | No one, I believe, is criticizing their efforts. I think people are | criticizing the X design philosophy, which anyone is entitled to do. | ...heck, criticism happens every microsecond in every newsgroup on the net! ;-> | | As far as "better" (he says with a sly objective look on his face), | have you looked at NeWS? Its available on almost as many | platforms as X and is much more programmable (the server, that is) than X, | and can inherently handle Postscript (ie., its *not* an extension). As a user I looked at NeWS 1.1 (I think that was the revision), running on a sun3/50. Within a week I was no longer running it. The terminal emulators were the big reason why I dropped NeWS. I couldn't get adequate performance out of the terminal emulators, and they seemed buggy as all get out. Since I primarily do text type things (such as compiler support), it didn't matter one whit whether it was easier to do complex graphics with the system -- if it doesn't do the basic tasks, it is useless as a window system. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?