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What about xclock?
by andrelaszlo 6y ago
What about xclock?
- DonHopkins 6y agoWhy use xclock when you can use Sun's "clocktool"? https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398ebd47 https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39... X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats — like Sun’s Open Look clock tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn’t have enough to tell you the time. Even the vanilla X11R4 “xclock” utility consumed 656K to run. And X’s memory usage is increasing.
- asveikau 6y agoThis is really dated criticism. Nobody in 2021 is talking about Sun Open Look. And even that, whatever its faults at the time, was probably less resource intensive than what most HN readers would use to build a UI today. Try running electron on an Open Look era machine.