13 Sep
2012
13 Sep
'12
8:58 a.m.
On 12 Sep 2012, at 11:20, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
I believe that the original Sun Windowing system also
predated widespread
use of X Windows.
I used this (I remember it having various names: was it originally Suntools but then later
Sunview?) in 1988-89, and my wife will remember earlier history than that (she ran the
first Sun in Scotland).
There was some big performance thing that happened to X: X existed by the time I used
Suns, but it was just catastrophically slow - I had a 3/50 without the secret extra memory
you could get and you really *had* to use Suntools on that because X was just unusable
(you could quite easily understand what order things like menus got drawn in by watching).
Then, I think, X11R3 (might have been not that release but a later one) came out, and it
was acceptably quick, and everyone changed except for a few holdouts.
--tim