I'd expect to see a lot more vector graphics use in a typical free software OS in the next few years than I saw with NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.
That means that X-Windows will match what Display Postsript did in 1994.
Of course, Unix weenies will rave about network transparent display as if that makes up for all of X-Windows' brain damage.
Then again, plogs.net could adapt to the new definition. Plogs.net is a fork of the livejournal code meant to provide "a more professional blogging experience" or some such. One has to pay in order to do anything besides comment on other people's plogs, so server response is pretty good.
The Unix-haters noted the same thing. In their Handbook, they explicityly stated that Unix succeeded because it was free ("or nominally licensed") and because it ran on cheap hardware (Sun workstations).
They even made the case that Sun hardware was designed to be a virus vector for Unix.
Their argument went something like this: A whole bunch of hackers were out of college and needed a platform on which to hack. They couldn't afford a real computer running a real operating system, so they bought (or convinced their bosses to buy) the cheapest system that supported a compiler and a linker.
"They were willing to make a few sacrifices," was the Unix-Hater's explanation.
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X-Windows: Faster than it used to be. This is not hard.
Then again, plogs.net could adapt to the new definition. Plogs.net is a fork of the livejournal code meant to provide "a more professional blogging experience" or some such. One has to pay in order to do anything besides comment on other people's plogs, so server response is pretty good.
The Unix-haters noted the same thing. In their Handbook, they explicityly stated that Unix succeeded because it was free ("or nominally licensed") and because it ran on cheap hardware (Sun workstations).
They even made the case that Sun hardware was designed to be a virus vector for Unix.
Their argument went something like this: A whole bunch of hackers were out of college and needed a platform on which to hack. They couldn't afford a real computer running a real operating system, so they bought (or convinced their bosses to buy) the cheapest system that supported a compiler and a linker.
"They were willing to make a few sacrifices," was the Unix-Hater's explanation.
In the Operating Systems Comparison section, ESR fails to take note of the Lisp Machine. It's instructive to note that Lisp Machine hackers were the main contributors to the Unix-Haters Handbook and the Unix-Haters mailing list.