Re: GUIs Considered Harmful

Article View: comp.windows.news

Article #446

#446

From: peter da silva
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:16

20 lines
1443 bytes

In article <5213@dove.nist.gov> bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov (Bob &) writes:
> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> : System 7 and Motif don't take more CPU power because they're rendering more
> : stuff. They take more CPU power because they're badly designed internally.

> IMHO, X is big because an X server is a guest operating system running
> on top of our beloved kitchen-sink UNIX.

If it was a kitchen sink O/S it'd be in the kernel. :->

More to the point, X has *two* operating systems: the X server, and the
toolkit running in the client. Each has to get their own scheduling right,
and that scheduling has to properly interact with the UNIX scheduling.

I really wish we could dump X and switch to NeWS...
-- 
Peter da Silva                                               `-_-'
$ EDIT/TECO LOVE                                              'U` 
%TECO-W-OLDJOKE Not war?                        Have you hugged your wolf today?
Ferranti Intl. Ctls. Corp.      Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012       +1 713 274 5180

Technical Details

Message-ID: <id.CLUS.6U9@ferranti.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter

References: <id.QFQS.R37@ferranti.com> <5213@dove.nist.gov>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
Message-ID: <id.CLUS.6U9@ferranti.com>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <id.QFQS.R37@ferranti.com> <5213@dove.nist.gov>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:16:07 GMT
Lines: 20

Reply to Parent Message