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Gosling: If I Designed a Window System Today...

Posted by michael on from the hindsight-is-20-20 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In his blog entry for the 10th August, James Gosling (finally) publishes a short paper he wrote in 2002 entitled 'Window System Design: If I had to do it over again in 2002'. His design is to make the window system do the absolute minimum and move all the work into the client."

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  1. Can we get a non-pdf'd link please? (no text) by oldosadmin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    blah, there's nothing written here.

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  2. Re:Good idea by maxpublic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It takes about 2 seconds for MS Word to come up on my laptop when running on batteries

    And the fact that Office apps are mostly loaded into memory at boot, thus providing the illusion of speed when they're 'opened', hasn't been pointed out to you?

    Max

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  3. Re:Good idea by rd_syringe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'd prefer not to have apps load on boot unless I tell them to load on boot, thank you very much. I don't need either my RAM or swap being soaked by an app I haven't given explicit permission to load.

    Good thing Office doesn't do this. It's a false rumor that it's loaded on boot. Nobody seems to care that's it not true.