[HECnet] Anyone got TOPS-20 / Ultrix with DECNET SIMH image ready to run?

On 06/12/2013 02:59 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: On the contrary. The design of X is very clean. (yes, I've been "all up in there".) There are some things about its innards that I do not like, but overall, it's extremely well-done. Ohhh. We're talking protocol design and that stuff. Yes, THAT is clean. I've just had experience with very bad implementations I guess. Like the one I'm currently running that likes to use 100% CPU doing nothing for no reason. This wouldn't happen on a properly-implemented workstation I would admit. However on a PeeCee where politics is more important than doing things well...issues arise. Well XFree86 (which is what I assume you're talking about), while amazing in some ways, is a real piece of crap in others. I'm still a fan of NeWS myself. ;) It was a neat idea. The fact that we're still using it three decades later on completely, totally different hardware, in completely different ways, tells a lot. That does say a lot. I'd still argue that the implementations still need work though. I will not disagree with that. Some parts of how we're using it now, though (like client-side font rendering) are extremely kludgy. But that's not the fault of X. I'd agree. I didn't know we were discussing the protocol. ;) Well you said "X", which is a protocol, not a piece of software. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA