80's X - was: Timer slack for slacker developers

Posted Oct 18, 2011 21:08 UTC (Tue) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: Timer slack for slacker developers by jcm
Parent article: Timer slack for slacker developers

I think the modern spelling of "network transparent" is "HTML5". However I find that xterm<->tmux provides a very usable 80's style windowing environment over a simple ssh connection.
Oh wait ... I don't think we had ssh in the 80's :-)

80's X - was: Timer slack for slacker developers

Posted Oct 18, 2011 22:12 UTC (Tue) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]

Yea but...HTML5 is the example folks give when told that Linux as a consumer OS doesn't have a stable platform for third party applications. They say "oh, but in the future...HTML5...hand wavy!" and all that. Conveniently forgetting that this was the future for iPhone right before Apple had to about-face and offer real apps. HTML5 and friends might be the future, but that future is further away than most think it is.

It's true we didn't have ssh in the 80s. Nor did we have Xinerama and lots of other things I do like, all of which are iterative improvements on what went before :)