17 Dec
1998
17 Dec
'98
5:59 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
MGR continues to be popular on surviving AT&T 3B1 and 7300 Unix PCs.
Took a small hardware mod to run it, but it's been stable for years.
Since the Unix PC can't be upgraded to enough RAM to make X useable.
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ObCC: Does anybody remember a nice small GUI that
came out for Unix around
the same time as X? I think it was called MGR, or something like that.
Yep, MGR was from Bellcore labs. It was the first GUI I used on Linux,
since initially the requirements were to draconian to run X (actually I
think MGR was running on Linux before X).
Kind of cool, but it was slow. I put it on a 386sx/16 laptop w/4Mb RAM
thinking that it would be faster than X. Turns out that using the 'Mini-X'
distribution that used to be available that X was faster for what I needed
to do (preview DVI files).