Tomorrow I'm going to lunch with a retired friend. He was a young electrical engineer on the Alto group, and he implemented the first ethernet board for Robert Metcalfe. Xerox PARC is a fascinating place: So many great ideas were born there. And many of them died right there, while some of them ended up being great things implemented by others. While the relationship between the corporate research labs (Bell Labs, IBM Research, HP Labs, Digital CRL/WRL/SRC..., Xerox PARC, ...) and their corporate parents was always fraught with problem, and most of them had a spotty track record productizing their ideas, PARC was by far the most ineffective.Never mind, just being lazy ... see Wikipedia for the gory details, including many names such as Douglas Englebart, Alan Kay et al.
Well, i am in my laptop now. I do not know CRL/WRL/SRC. I know Bell Labs in physics science, the research group got ideas in xrays applied in cristal. What it had to do with telephones lines is not in issue. IBM Research is a question about what it accomplished apart from shrinking the mainframe into a home desk. I have to give credit to the creators of the early interfaces in PC. Jobs only stood in their work.While the relationship between the corporate research labs (Bell Labs, IBM Research, HP Labs, Digital CRL/WRL/SRC..., Xerox PARC, ...) and their corporate parents was always fraught with problem, and most of them had a spotty track record productizing their ideas, PARC was by far the most ineffective.
Funny. Not much legroom in there.Well, i am in my laptop now.
It took me a minute to get it. I can type better than in my galaxy.Funny. Not much legroom in there.
Xorg (which is 'optionally installable') does come with TWM, that's the default GUI that is (separately) also 'optionally installable'. And it's plenty minimal.If they did put a default GUI, it would be need to be something minimal like OpenBSD's Xenocara and optionally installable.
Xorg...
Wait, what? Last time critical mass was something was in physics, the nuclear kind. It is the minimal radium to create a nuclear reaction. Go ahead.All I meant was that if (Gord forbid) the proponents of that idea got enough critical mass to make it happen, It ...
are you messing around? 'critical mass' also means 'enough people'...Wait, what? Last time critical mass was something was in physics, the nuclear kind. It is the minimal radium to create a nuclear reaction. Go ahead.
Uhhh... see these definitions of 'critical mass': https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/critical mass and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)not messing. that is a scientific term used in physics since man and woman found a way to split the atom. the quantum physics that Bohr had to learn was but his first failure to the next step in the ladder.
Of course the man got the nobel in physics.
Stil TWM is minimal indeed. I
Physics is not the only place where this is valid English vocabulary.
An apology for you. I learned it in school and stick to that meaningUhhh... see these definitions of 'critical mass': https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/critical mass and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass_(sociodynamics)
Physics is not the only place where this is valid English vocabulary.
But in the Wikipedia link says the phrase is borrowed. So the first meaning is the one from science.An apology for you. I learned it in school and stick to that meaning