X11 bashing

Les Hill leh at atlantis.cis.ufl.edu
Wed Apr 17 23:38:38 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr16.210107.41817 at eagle.wesleyan.edu>, amolitor at eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
|> In article <26550 at adm.brl.mil>, preece at urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) writes:
|> > Most of the critics have failed to suggest what they would have liked to
|> > see as a windowing interface instead of X.
|> 
|> 	Very well. I want xterms. Nothing more. I want to be able to pop
|> open 80x24 windows that emulate vt100s correctly. If you want to get fancy,
|> I might want to allow window dimensions to be specified at the time they
|> are opened.
...blah blah blah...
|> 	Andrew

Why don't you just stack a couple of vt100s on your desk and save your inane indictments of X?

Les
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