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Date:      Sat, 28 Jun 2003 14:55:04 -0500
From:      Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 11 Hour Installs on KDE?
Message-ID:  <20030628195504.GA20119@freshaire.wiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <3EFDE90F.3010301@mac.com>
References:  <BB231D34.11D40%joepok@ninestar.com> <3EFDE90F.3010301@mac.com>

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:14:23PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 
> X is huge and bloated.  CDE was a graphic user environment designed by a 
> committee of Unix vendors: Sun had NeWS, OpenWindows, Motif/MWM and CDE 
> choose the latter rather than either of the former, HP had HP/UX and that 
> wretched bottom center console thing [a poor clone of the CMU 'wmc' console 
> under Andrew], who else?  AIX & 'smit'?  Anyway, since then, CDE has 
> pursued the goal of emulating aspects of the M$ Windows GUI.

AIX & smit makes X huge and bloated?  Smit is an application which
runs either curses or X for display purposes.  It is certainly not
to blame for X being bloated.

Marc
-- 
Marc Wiz
marc@wiz.com
Yes, that really is my last name.



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