Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:73228 alt.religion.computers:2122 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!n025fc From: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu (Kevin Weller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.religion.computers Subject: Re: A3000UX competition Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 90 18:58:52 GMT References: <86470@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <12003@hubcap.clemson.edu> <36449@cup.portal.com> <1990Dec2.153612.28555@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <36488@cup.portal.com> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga Organization: Texas A&M University, Computer Science Department Lines: 28 In-reply-to: thad@cup.portal.com's message of 3 Dec 90 07:17:08 GMT In article <36488@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ .... And don't talk to me about X; all my application needed was tiled and over- lapping pop-up fancy-line-border windows, menus and "forms" along with various text and character video attributes (and now color) and cursor-key, mouse and keypad user input WITHOUT the overhead of X, especially since most "real world" business customers do NOT have X-terminals and may be calling in at 2400 to 9600 baud on serial lines. The application couldn't be done under BSD without writing my OWN graphics library (or buying the Aspen one), since BSD doesn't provide those features BUT SVR3 and SVR4 do. .... Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well said! I for one can't afford to set aside the memory, disk space, and CPU power for the resource-hog that is X. My group can have quite a few more things going at once without X than with it, a much more cost-effective practice for those that don't need *everything* in bit-mapped graphics. It seems that, at least for now, character-based windowing is the key to true portability. -- Kev -- Kevin L. Weller /-------+--------------------\ internet: n025fc@tamuts.tamu.edu | aTm | GIG 'EM, AGGIES! | CIS: 73327,1447 \-------+--------------------/