RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (07/25/88)
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 88 22:38:09 EDT
From: ulysses!cjc@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Chris Calabrese[rs])
As for the number of chatacters in the window changing, just think about
the difficulty of implementing this in UNIX with respect to the
philosophy of NeWS. Sure it been done (AT&T 630), but this way is
easer.
In chatting with the original author of psterm, the motivation for this
behavior was not because it was simpler. At the time, he was looking
for a way of testing the font scaling code, and he figured having people
in-house creating random-sized windows would be one good way. Of
course, at that time psterm was not intended as a product.