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This is why I like about X11/Motif and mwm. We wrote an application in 1992 for HP/UX. Since then we ported to Red Hat Linux, GCC and 64 bit. Most of the chang
by nroets 8y ago
This is why I like about X11/Motif and mwm. We wrote an application in 1992 for HP/UX. Since then we ported to Red Hat Linux, GCC and 64 bit.
Most of the changes were bug fixes because we didn't read the C standard when we started.
The largest addition was code that serialize all the data structures so that the flat files could be moved between little endian and big endian machines.
It's still in production.
- yowlingcat 8y agoWow, that's impressive. I've always had a soft spot for X11. I still have fond memories for setting up a FluxBox ubuntu partition on an old socket 478 Celeron. With a now ancient 5900SE, that thing would really fly, and I bet it still would today despite being ancient. Compare that to the sad state of the comparatively bloated OSX/Windows/web with new frameworks every two years that are incompatible with each one just before it and it all makes you quite sad.