10 Jul
2019
10 Jul
'19
7:34 a.m.
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, Larry McVoy wrote:
Indeed. Bringing up X11 when I knew nothing about
graphics drivers was,
um, interesting. It did teach me to just try #ifdef-ing out the code
that didn't work, sort of a prune the tree approach, that helped me
later in life. Things don't have to be perfect, a working window system
that fails in some corner case I don't hit is better than nothing by a
long shot.
Back in the 80s, our idiot of a manager just dumped an Xterm on us,
expecting us to get it to work ASAP for a demo..
Oh the fun we had, seeing as our knowledge of "X" at the time was confined
to knowing how to spell it... I even told him that, and he wasn't amused
:-)
-- Dave