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One of the fun things about working at Sun back in the day was that there were folks trying to fix some of the issues that were legitimately raised by the UHH.

One of the fun things about working at Sun back in the day was that there were folks trying to fix some of the issues that were legitimately raised by the UHH. That said, I shared Don's disgust with X. The difference between running X on a workstation and SunTools felt like a 300% slowdown. And yet today I sit here typing into a window that is being displayed by an X server running on a Windows OS on a computer that is acting pretty much like an X-terminal for my Linux server. It has warts, true, but its still flying as they would say on Firefly. I have often wondered what the world would be like if we had decided to move the GPU into the monitor and ran a parameterized display system over HDMI rather than something that looks like a cancerous NTSC composite video signal.

DonHopkins 7y ago
>One of the fun things about working at Sun back in the day was that there were folks trying to fix some of the issues that were legitimately raised by the UHH. Like opening core files (which have gigantic gaps of unmapped zeros) by loading them into the XView text editor when you double click on them in the XView file manager? ;) That's actually how core dumps grow and reproduce and evolve, like those wasps that lay their eggs in other insects and turn them into zombies, by embedding themselves in an unwitting host process and making it core dump even bigger! https://www.wired.com/2014/10/absurd-creature-week-glyptapanteles-wasp-caterpillar-bodyguard/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/absurd-creature-week-glyptapan... And while on the topic of XView: Do you have any good XBUGTOOL horror stories, Chuck? ;) The most foolish thing I ever did was try to use it to file a bug against itself. Boy do I regret that! http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/xbugtool.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/xbugto...

DonHopkins 7y ago

>One of the fun things about working at Sun back in the day was that there were folks trying to fix some of the issues that were legitimately raised by the UHH. Like opening core files (which have gigantic gaps of unmapped zeros) by loading them into the XView text editor when you double click on them in the XView file manager? ;) That's actually how core dumps grow and reproduce and evolve, like those wasps that lay their eggs in other insects and turn them into zombies, by embedding themselves in an unwitting host process and making it core dump even bigger! https://www.wired.com/2014/10/absurd-creature-week-glyptapanteles-wasp-caterpillar-bodyguard/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/absurd-creature-week-glyptapan... And while on the topic of XView: Do you have any good XBUGTOOL horror stories, Chuck? ;) The most foolish thing I ever did was try to use it to file a bug against itself. Boy do I regret that! http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/xbugtool.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/xbugto...