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Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:44:44 -0800 (PST)
X was made for hardware that only vendors made and supported :)
The amiga rocked unix. :) Thats just pride though, I know that
technically it sucked, although a fully multitasking OS in less than 1mb
of ram is pretty damn amazing.
About the original comment, X11R6's API is concidered(heck, I can't
spell.. I just woke up) "stable" and they're just fixing bugs now.. Sign
up for the X comittee and offer to write part of the official source :)
"You just made 10 bucks off that person's misery. That was wrong."
"Yeah. next time, $20." -- daria
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 bbarnett@L8R.net wrote:
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> I must interject here, and mention that multiple screen sizes, with multiple
> depths, is not a new thing. You CAN change and/or add a screen of different
> depth, without effecting current applications.. the api just has to be set up
> to handle this.
> Let me put it another way. If the amiga, a 12 year old os can do it, then
> linux can do it. It has supported multiple screens, of multiple screen
> sizes/depths for over 12 years. Certainly X11 can do this, or there is
> something desperately wrong ;)
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