CMU Andrew system (and wm) preservation

[Stefan Skoglund]

mån 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 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…)

The hackers in the lab in Umeå 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.