21 Sep
2020
21 Sep
'20
4:20 p.m.
On Sep 21, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Almost looks like a SunView ancestor.
It was the first GUI for Linux, back in ?92. Once X-Windows was able to support my video
card I moved to that. Then in ?94 I had to move to a laptop with only 4MB RAM, so I used
MGR until a version of X-Windows was released that would work well with only 4MB RAM. In
both cases, I was mainly after the DVI viewer for TeX, and multiple terminal windows.
Then again, even today, the main reason I use X-Windows is for multiple terminal windows.
:-) Between ?92 and roughly ?96, X-Windows drove all my RAM purchases, after that it was
graphics software and web browsers.
Zane
MGR was
not the Unix PC's native GUI environment; I'm not sure what that
was named. MGR was an open source environment that could be installed on
the Unix PC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManaGeR