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From: kvancamp@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Ken Van Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Windows
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Date: 15 May 89 17:54:44 GMT
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 >Mark Callow says they are working on the window performance issue for
 >release 3.2. He has really missed the point. I want the option of having
 >NO window manager.

Yeah, what he said!  On the 3000's you could at least do a reasonable
amount of text operations without Mex running, but on the 4D's the only
option you have is NOGRAPHICS=1 when you login.  Then your visual
editors don't work.  I guess that's why SGI moved vi from /bin to /usr/bin
on the 4D's; you can't use it anyway without your window manager running.

Some times I'd like to just login for text operations, and then I don't
want to have to wait for 4Sight to start up.  Bad design, SGI!

                            --Ken Van Camp 
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