NeWS fell by the wayside because MIT (and DEC?) gave us X11. That such a large and complex software system was created from scratch just to be given away for free was truly mindblowing. It was obvious that X11, because of its unemcumbered license, was the horse to bet on.
NFS had been out for several years when Sun started evangelizing about Java and how the 'network is the computer'. I remember how the slogan felt strange and misleading - as if by using Java you would be able to harness all the worlds computers to work in concert for you... they clearly meant the Internet, not just your LAN.
Heh, rxvt is even worse. If you move the scroller even one pixel below its normal lowest position, it jumps to its uppermost position! If you have a large scrollback buffer you'll have to be pretty deft to be able to scroll down again to the exact pixel line to see your cursor again.
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NeWS fell by the wayside because MIT (and DEC?) gave us X11. That such a large and complex software system was created from scratch just to be given away for free was truly mindblowing. It was obvious that X11, because of its unemcumbered license, was the horse to bet on.
NFS had been out for several years when Sun started evangelizing about Java and how the 'network is the computer'. I remember how the slogan felt strange and misleading - as if by using Java you would be able to harness all the worlds computers to work in concert for you... they clearly meant the Internet, not just your LAN.
Heh, rxvt is even worse. If you move the scroller even one pixel below its normal lowest position, it jumps to its uppermost position! If you have a large scrollback buffer you'll have to be pretty deft to be able to scroll down again to the exact pixel line to see your cursor again.
You're obviously not married.
A Pentium 4-M is not a Pentium-M. What is the cache size mentioned by /proc/cpuinfo? Should be 1 Mb.