10 Jul
2019
10 Jul
'19
3:19 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 09:02:50PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
On 7/9/2019 8:49 PM, 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.
reminds me of bringing up X11
back in the day.
Oh boy, the output from that make, hoo-weee....