X Windows System Design Principles, a lecture by James Gettys

Tony Aiuto tony.aiuto at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 19:47:54 CDT 2016


I used to tell people he wrote the *getty* program. Of course, that was a
long time ago, when people actually used serial terminals.

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:03 AM, tim lindner <tlindner at macmess.org> wrote:

> I think it is dated 1988.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmNHM9BKY0
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> Interesting fact: His name is Gettys.
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> Interesting quote: "We should never have done [the] Arc [drawing
> command], we should have done some spline implementation."
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> tim lindner
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> "Proper User Policy apparently means Simon Says."
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