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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
Message-ID: <11R6593@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 12:52:31 GMT
References: <9886@milton.u.washington.edu> <=YN6UN5@xds13.ferranti.com> <8460@scolex.sco.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <8460@scolex.sco.COM> seanf (Sean Fagan) writes:
> >> DON'T make every application do everything under the sun.  Do the 
> >> essential operation, do it well, and make it efficient!
> >Bravo!

> I agree.  And don't make your OS do everything, if you can make the
> applications do it for you.  Just my opinin, though...

Finally, be careful *what* application you get to do a given task. For
example, window refreshing belongs in the display server task, not duplicated
in every application.

(yes, the inevitable X flame)
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Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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