[rescue] "bloated pig X11" (was: OpenLook/Openwin WAS: CDE)

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Thu Aug 9 11:27:47 CDT 2012


In article <20120809161131.GA19537 at mooli.org.uk>,
    Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:06:26AM -0600, Richard wrote:
> [...]
> > If you're just going to equate "bloat" with "feature I don't use", then
> > again I would say that you haven't actually tried to make a general
> > purpose graphics library that is suitable to a wide audience.
> 
> The Amiga's graphics libraries and windowing system occupied just 125kB of
> ROM :)

...and didn't solve the same set of problems.
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