jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (08/07/89)
In article <10677@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >Funny, just the other day I commented to my officemate that it was >hard to imagine ever getting along without multiple windows. Those of us who work at the birthplace of X are spoiled -- I spent two years working on almost nothing but X window workstations, but for the past two months I've been working on a 1200 baud modem line from Ohio to Massachusetts. It's hell. I'm still constantly reaching for the mouse to do cut and paste, even though I've been working this way for two months. It's driving me crazy. I can't wait to get back to Cambridge. I started out in Unix on an X workstation, and I find it hard to believe that people actually managed to get real work done before multiple windows became common. Windows are the nicest thing since sliced bread. They are as much "overkill" as the first CRT terminals were overkill when everybody was using REAL tty's. Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 432 S. Rose Blvd. jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Akron, OH 44320 Office: 617-253-4261 Home: 216-869-6432