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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: windows on normal terminals
Message-ID: <2025@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Jun-86 17:30:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 15 17:30:50 1986
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Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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I happen to have written a windowing library that runs on `standard'
terminals.  Someone else wrote a window shell on top of that.
(Actually, two people wrote two different window shells.)  We also
have the 4.3BSD `window' program (which, incidentally, is clearly
a distant relative of my library code).  So we have a number of
windowing programs available locally.  However, I rarely use any
of them.  Why?  I am not entirely certain, but I think the main
problem is that 24x80 (or 30x80 or even 33x80) is already too small,
or perhaps just barely adequate.  I do not intend to put down
anyone's efforts; but before you invest in a windowing system, make
sure you are really going to use it. . . .
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 1516)
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