On 7 Jun 2018, at 03:14, James Cuff
<jc...@nextplatform.com<mailto:jc...@nextplatform.com>> wrote:
I miss SGI jot. It had this super strange GL offload to the client that I’ve
never seen since.
http://rainbow.ldeo.columbia.edu/documentation/sgi-faq/apps/6.html
You’re a very bad man, Cuff. Jot, and everything else written with IrisGL, was
an abomination. I still have nightmares about ANSIG, an interactive program
for assigning 4D NMR spectra, which was written more than 20 years ago in
FORTRAN77 and IrisGL. Chances of porting to anything other than IRIX: Zero.
[ Idly wonders what those folks use these days ]
We really need to find a solid way to do this whole remote GUI work.
https://2018.isc-program.com/?page_id=10&id=wksp122&sess=sess279
Makes me think. 1st workshop. Can’t ever be the first time this question has
been asked. Also David, absolutely not OT. Very much on topic.
I think X11 was a fairly good idea, in theory, for how to deal with this
problem. The implementation may have left something to be desired, I suppose.
In practice I virtually never use X11 any more. I use probably two X11
applications, both of them once in a blue moon. One of them is a local legacy
program about to be replaced by a web app, and the other is gitk.
I long since stopped using graphical editors on Linux. I’ve toyed with them on
MacOS since.
Tim
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