Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 2014-04-26 20:53, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Interesting. I suppose that could lead us back to which widgetsets
support full multithreading.
And it just surprises me what features Xlib / X11 has - yet everybody
seems so eager to replace it with something else (often with something
less feature rich, yet tick the "cool" box). Sure X11 could do with some
modernization, but I still think it is damn impressive - considering how
The principal problems seem to be related to the number of apps which
demand a high-bandwidth link to the video, with even web browsers (as
distinct from embedded video content) now expecting OpenGL.
long ago it was created. Software engineers from that time-frame were
pretty impressive.
Not software engineers in the general case, but MIT engineers and the
Boston/Cambridge culture (with a nod to Bell Labs in New Jersey).
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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