Re: [dev] Interesting post about X11

From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57_AT_fastmail.fm>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:42:19 +0100

On 14 Jun 2010, at 22:20, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> I’d like to see the web
> browser engine run in fullscreen and have all applications – including
> the system that organizes the applications and the terminal
> implemented by using web technologies.

This has been done, look up Sun JavaStations. They failed, died and
faded away, but before they did they harmed a generation of computer
science students where Sun had so generously donated JavaStations to
universities.

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Complexity is not a function of the number of features. Some features  
exist only because complexity was _removed_ from the underlying system.
Received on Mon Jun 14 2010 - 22:42:19 UTC

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