You can have a display server with 10% of the code and 10% of the bugs!

TELL US MORE about how pruning dead code and reducing the number of bugs is not a benefit for the user.

TELL US MORE about the benefits of maintaining DEAD UNUSABLE remote code! WHY should users put up with the performance issues associated with years and years of X lossage?

sound? nope, not happening

3-d effects? nope, not happening

D-BUS integration? nope, not happening

what a mess. kill it now. even the X developers are actively working to kiil X

All those rants about X windows in the Unix Hater's Handbook are STILL TRUE

Everybody says "ooh noooo don't kill remote X windows! it's the best!"

except for one thing: IT SUCKS.

Have you ever tried to actually USE remote X? It's just beyond horrible.

The failure is that X was designed for low-latency between the display and the application, and that use case is just not very useful.

In reality the display and the application are connected over a high-latency link and X is UNUSABLE in this context.

VNC does not assume a low-latency link and so it remains responsive and pleasant even over a crappy ADSL connection.

Go ahead and TRY to use Firefox remotely over your ISP connection. It's just a pathetic joke and you will kill it out of frustration before even a single page loads.

Try the exact same thing with a VNC connection and it works just fine.

huh?

Yeah let's just FORGET ALL ABOUT OSX, it is UNIX and it has a graphical user interface!

And if OSX is not "standard" well then WHY are "standard" UNIX applications like emacs and firefox written for it?

X Windows is also the standard way for VMS applications to get a user interface, but you neglected to mention this valuable addition to your pathetic argument.

You're just betraying your ignorance of Wayland. Wayland does NOT replace X windows. In fact Wayland was designed from scratch so that an X server can run in wayland WITH NO PERFORMANCE PENALTY.

So with Wayland you can STILL run your old legacy X11 apps and get decent performance too!

Win win all around! What is the downside?

Yeah those reprocessing plants in Hanford. they don't make any waste..

If we dismiss arguments with "the speaker is a hypocrite" then NOBODY will EVER listen to ANYBODY because we are ALL hypocrites.

FOR GOODNESS SAKE, stop associating ideas with the mouths from which they emerge, and

LET IDEAS STAND OR FALL ON THEIR MERIT

NOT ON WHO SUPPOSEDLY SAID THEM

I'm looking right at the HDMI connector

It's no surprise that you can hook a fast GPU to a slow CPU and get good results, look at Raspberry Pi, who could imagine doing HDMI video with a single core 700 MHz processor?

When the computer that you carry around in your pocket is not a "Personal Computer", but the computer whose permanent home is on the floor, it's called a "Personal Computer"???

Very odd!

There was no graphical component to the development environment. It was no different from any of the other systems of the time in that respect.

Why don't you just tell the truth and say that this visual development environment was developed on MIT CADR and then shamelessly copied by Symbolics and LMI?

The design is open source. Download the gerber files, edit them and send away for your own boards. There are low-volume low-cost options like batchpcb and iteadstudios and you can have the boards you want for just a few dollars.

I've also heard of batteries that need replacing, epoxy kind of puts a damper on that.