Raymond Moyers wrote:
> eh ?
Yes I am from Canada -- But I speek Da English
> Ok so you dont know anything about unix, thats what you are
> saying here.
True, but considering most of unix was developed
in a educational atmosphere were only a few programs ran
-- text editor -- C Compiler -- TROFF at once because that all
a student or staff member could run because resorce limitations.
> Its also apparent that everything you have been told about it came
> from those equally ignorant, they are all wrong.
What is true or false is not important as this is the view I have
of the systems with the knowlage and understanding from what I have
seen.
> Gimp dont translate to a tty very well, but an xterm is certainly the
> bitmapped representation of the tty.
BUT I MAY NOT WANT a bit map when running under XWINDOWS!
I want a 80x25 screen (640x480) because I can read the screen for
text-editing!
No font's under X-windows (linux) would give me that!
> Unix already has this X11 is a standard you can run your sun apps
> your irix apps your freebsd apps all on the GUI of your linux box all
> at once. and last time i looked, all the other systems have adopted
> our plumbing, not the other way around.
It is not the plumbing -- it is what goes down the pipe that needs to
be standarded!
> eh ? what would be wrong with a nice large 4096 x 3192 screen
> with whatever size fonts you desire ? and the ability to populate
> that screen with the workload of a whole stack of boxes.
1) Not everybody has the same standard fonts!
2) I like 1 screen 1 program and screen flipping.
> "Well the end user experience" is system agnostic except
> for the winblows limitations that dumbs your system down
> to the microset winblows can provide. unix has point and
> click too, but it isnt implimented stupidly.
But the 3 button mouse is hard to find!
> You would make a good leftist, the asurdity seems high enough.
After 40 years waiting for public space travel, my faith in NASA
is wearing thin.
> So utopian brainwashed fiction writers are now your authority
> on such things ..
Don't judge a book until you have read it!
> Are you a moonie of Noam Chomsky too ?
Nope!
But I howl at the full moon now and then!
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 20:28:12 BST