19 Dec
2019
19 Dec
'19
9:32 p.m.
On 12/19/19 1:54 AM, Rob Pike wrote:
Two bits per pixel. The "render extension"
in X Windows originated there,
after an epiphany I had while watching Hoop Dreams. True story.
That's a great movie. I would be very interested in hearing the story of
how it sparked that epiphany.
(And if you liked Hoop Dreams, you might be interested in "Benji", an ESPN
30 for 30 documentary about another Chicago high school basketball player
but from a very different angle. Unless, of course, you've already seen
it.)
Chet
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``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/