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To: OrionX who wrote (32142)	2/6/2002 12:41:31 AM
From: Alomex	Respond to of 213176

X-windows was an excellent idea and still is today. An excellent idea, a terrible implementation. Originally you were supposed to have thin clients marginally more expensive than TTYs. Because of this the Athena project implemented very weak primitives on the X-terminal side. However as the project progressed it became more and more clear that substantial CPU power was needed on the terminal side, but the primitives were never upgraded accordingly. Then end effect was to have full-blown PCs lobotomized by vendors (such as NCD) to behave like X-terminals. As Richard correctly points out display postscript corrects this specific problem by making better use of computing power at the terminal side. This one of several problems with X-windows (don't even get me started on the toolkit)...