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From: terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: X11 bashing
Message-ID: <9489@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 8 May 91 20:11:44 GMT
References: <1991May1.205923.7669@ladc.bull.com> <155@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <9471@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> <160@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Reply-To: terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <160@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>In article <9471@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM writes:
>>+My console is 42 lines by 80 columns.
>>     And how easily can you change that (if at all)??? What, you mean you'll
>>never want to change it??? What if you wanted to view a file that someone had
>>entered on a > 80 column terminal, and you'd like to see each line on ONE
>>physical line, instead of multiple physical lines???
>
>The first time I need 132 column terminal was when we bought infamous ETA10.
>Its fortrans sometimes output listing with 132 columns.
>
>Solution? We told CDC/ETA not to do such a silly thing, of course.
>
>Of course, as a workaround, I could have used VT100, though it can't
>display Japanese characters.
>>     Thanx, but I'll keep my X, bloated as it may be....
>But, why?


     Because it makes me more productive, and there isn't a better alternative
around out there. A MAC is NOT an alternative, due to the nature of my work.

     Actually, my example of > 80 column terminal wasn't a good choice, so
here's a better example. A lot of my time is editing files, and more often
than not, I need to see 3-4 files AT THE SAME TIME. Try doing that without
some sort of windowing system (and a mouse is MANDATORY).


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