Comment Re:Needs more X-Windows Discussion (Score 1) 305
Yeah, he's skipped over a ton of window-centric systems...
He completetly left out the first commercially successful workstation. Apollo Domain from around in 1979 if my old fart memory manager isn't totally hosed. despite being built with M680X0 hardware, these puppies were way fast for their time. That single level memory storage model made location of your data tranparent across the LAN. Very cool.
As I can best recall we had a sun2-160 with Suntools, later on SunView in 1982 or 1983. Yeah, they were slower than shit until the Sun3/260 came out. That $80K workstation was way faster than our VAVen except the 8650 which cost $800K!
And SGI had their M680x0 hardware out that ran their proprietary windowing package.
We had a bunch of MicroVaxII's running as a VMScluster with some kinda B/W head on them in 1985 or 86.
I was managing the graphics programmers for a little company called ECAD when the color heads for the DECstation were made available. I started my guys migrating from our platform specific "bare glass" graphics libraries to this new-fangled X-windows 10.R4 around then. I think we may of shipped one of the first commecial software packages to run under X-windows. Around 1986.
And Sun's NeWS totally rocked except it came out way after X-windows was really entrenched.
And the Motif window manager was out long before MS Windows Program Manager was released. The MS window dudes copied it's form and function, not the otherway around.
So I agree the X-windows stuff got shortsheeted.
He completetly left out the first commercially successful workstation. Apollo Domain from around in 1979 if my old fart memory manager isn't totally hosed. despite being built with M680X0 hardware, these puppies were way fast for their time. That single level memory storage model made location of your data tranparent across the LAN. Very cool.
As I can best recall we had a sun2-160 with Suntools, later on SunView in 1982 or 1983. Yeah, they were slower than shit until the Sun3/260 came out. That $80K workstation was way faster than our VAVen except the 8650 which cost $800K!
And SGI had their M680x0 hardware out that ran their proprietary windowing package.
We had a bunch of MicroVaxII's running as a VMScluster with some kinda B/W head on them in 1985 or 86.
I was managing the graphics programmers for a little company called ECAD when the color heads for the DECstation were made available. I started my guys migrating from our platform specific "bare glass" graphics libraries to this new-fangled X-windows 10.R4 around then. I think we may of shipped one of the first commecial software packages to run under X-windows. Around 1986.
And Sun's NeWS totally rocked except it came out way after X-windows was really entrenched.
And the Motif window manager was out long before MS Windows Program Manager was released. The MS window dudes copied it's form and function, not the otherway around.
So I agree the X-windows stuff got shortsheeted.
