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I've got one of Lars's t-shirts: "IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE 36 BITS, YOU'RE NOT PLAYING WITH A FULL DEC..." -- attributed to Doug Humphrey (DIGEX) trollin
by DonHopkins 2y ago
I've got one of Lars's t-shirts:
"IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE 36 BITS, YOU'RE NOT PLAYING WITH A FULL DEC..." -- attributed to Doug Humphrey (DIGEX) trolling the 32 bit VAX Weenies at DECUS.
https://techsquare.myspreadshop.com/36-bit+full+dec-A64fef41b5ad8d84d5016d2ff https://techsquare.myspreadshop.com/36-bit+full+dec-A64fef41...
The LMI Lisp Machines Inc. one is quite classy (or rather flavory) too:
https://techsquare.myspreadshop.com/lisp+machine+inc-A6417f52e3c63242757ed19e3 https://techsquare.myspreadshop.com/lisp+machine+inc-A6417f5...
And a lot more, including Zork, INTERFACE MESSAGE PROCESSOR, decsystem10, digital PDP-10 (also in tie dye!), digital pdp11, IMLAC, GENERAL TURTLE INC., bbn Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. TENEX, Multics: IF YOU LIKE IT SO MUCH WHY DON'T YOU PUT EIGHT RINGS ON IT, MUDDLE 39 IN OPERATION. LISTENING-AT-LEVEL 1 PROCESS 1, INTERLISP, FOONLY, X Window System Screen Background + X Cursor [wretch!], and more!
https://techsquare.myspreadshop.com/all https://techsquare.myspreadshop.com/all
I had an even uglier X-Windows t-shirt that I got at the first X11 conference at MIT. It was simply a black and white screen dump with a bunch of incredibly hideous Athena Widgets apps (aka the Anathema Toolkit) like the original X11 netnews and email readers, the infamous butt-ugly xfontsel font selector (for selecting butt-ugly-fonts-with-butt-ugly-logical-font-description-names), and xterm, xlogo, xclock, xcalc, etc, on an audacious lime green background, and I loved to wear it to show off how terrible X-Windows was, and totally wore it out. If anyone still has one I'd pay good money for it!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xfontsel.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xfontsel.png
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_logical_font_description https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_logical_font_description
Here's what happens to xcalc if you stretch it around too much -- its layout manager loses its elasticity and begins to look like Donatella Versace after her 10th botched plastic surgery attempt:
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/x-windows/XCalc.gif https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/x-window...
To mitigate that problem, I hacked the OLWM window manager so I could run it with a window id parameter to use as the root window, and gave it xcalc's client window id, so it wrapped frames around each of the buttons, and I could drag them around and resize them to repair the damage, make the important ones really big, arrange the digits in any order, and even iconify the buttons I didn't need. But that was even uglier with the OPEN LOOK frames around each button, and was a far cry from HyperCard.