7 Sep
2020
7 Sep
'20
12:10 p.m.
m?n 2020-09-07 klockan 11:43 -0700 skrev Chris Hanson via cctalk:
On Sep 7, 2020, at 6:24 AM, dstalk at execulink.com
wrote:
The hackers in the lab in Ume? Sweden said the same thing about X11
vs Sunview on the lab's 3/60 and 3/80 machines compared with the 1(+?).
Running Sun's debug tool (in its sunview version) on a 3/60 were ok, no
lag dito starting sunview's cmdtool , while xterm werent so snappy on
the same machine.
The description I have for AUIS (6.3.1) is:
"AUIS (Andrew User Interface System) - compound document
environment offering a word processor, mail/bulletin board
reader/writer, drawing editor, spreadsheet, font editor,
application builder, and many other facilities"
Again, an application, not a windowing system per se.
Yes, the Andrew environment implemented proper layering, so ATK was
made to work atop X and the applications (messages, ez, console,
typescript, etc.) came along.
At Carnegie Mellon in the early 1990s, you could (with only a little
work, to use a console rather than graphical login) use either X or
wm on some of the campus workstations. On a DECstation 3100 running
Ultrix, if you weren?t going to run any X applications wm was *much*
more responsive. I wasn?t around when the clusters had Sun-3 or IBM
RT hardware but I can imagine the differences there were even more
pronounced. (With wm, a DECstation felt as much faster than a Mac II
as it actually was?)