> What Sun didn't have was a usable GUI. The BSD crowd never comprehended how to do a GUI. Sun went through about three in-house windowing systems, including Su

> What Sun didn't have was a usable GUI. The BSD crowd never comprehended how to do a GUI. Sun went through about three in-house windowing systems, including Sun Windows, before ending up with MIT's X-Windows, which sucked less than anything Sun could write. That's inaccurate according to my general understanding of the history. X-Windows didn't win out over Sun's NeWS on technical merit, it was political. http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast... http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html