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Joke: Overheard at a Usenix conference, around that time: Person A: "... well, I think that Mach is the best example of intellectual fraud that I've seen here
by kabdib 14y ago
Joke:
Overheard at a Usenix conference, around that time:
Person A: "... well, I think that Mach is the best example of intellectual fraud that I've seen here this year."
Person B: "What about X Windows?"
Person A: "I said _intellectual_ fraud."
I was never a fan. X was just too far removed from the actual frame buffer to make this video-game writer happy. At. All.
(Probably didn't help that I tried to bring up one of the first versions of X on our Vax, and thought that their design decisions were just jaw-droppingly awful. I don't remember many details -- the frame-buffer layout was pretty strange, though they changed it later -- I just remember shaking my head a lot).
- luriel 14y agoSome of my favorite quotes about X ( from http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/ http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/ ) : "Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals." -- Henry Spencer "Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks." -- Dennis Ritchie speaking about X "If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that." -- Marcus J. Ranum "The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you." -- Ken Thompson
- npsimons 14y ago"I admit that X[Windows] is the second worst windowing system in the world, but all the others I've used are tied for first." -- Paul Tomblin