Um, yas, Lucretius K. Techsultin here, sometimes I am referred to as the Archdeacon of Insight into Matters Technical, uhm yas, Mr. Charters, I couldn't agree more. Clearly, if Linux had a world class, low bandwidth GUI (graphical user interface, or windowing, graphical hardware driver and window-centric software platform)that would in addition be dead easy to port real programs to, then it would be veritably unbeatable, wouldn't it?
Charters: (flabbergumoosted in the extremitude)Archdeacon? Why you tooka the words right outa my mouthpiece! I kant undderstood why nobody seen that befoah. Perhaps because the writting of a major piece of software like dat would be daunting. That and the installed base except for the X-client transparent pass-through( a feature of such high-end high-tech grafik systems, believe me), would be zero to start? But fer how long?
Techsultin: How long indeed? When dey programmateurs find out how dead simple it is to build world class windows with a few keystrokes and translate DOS type programs to windows point and click easitude by users even!, will the path to your door be long shallow, or soon narrow and deep?
Charteris: Yah, I kan see it now. The new desktop Linux. Who wudda thot it? Dense grafiks, fonts to die for. Cut and true pasties. Windows in the round. Bleed through text and no more colour map nightmares or crash bound systems. X-fear gone for ever. Everyone porting programs like no tomorrow.
Is it all a dream?
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