Quote:
Originally Posted by Katsunami
"The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you."
-- Ken Thompson
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Just after reading this, I watched the CNN Steve Job "The Man in the Machine" documentary. It made the point that at the time windowing GUIs and the mouse were first invented, computing cycles and bits of memory were scarce, expensive resources that were zealously guarded by sys admins. It was considered sacrilege to waste those precious resources on things that did nothing for you, like drawing windows and icons and moving pointers on the screen.
Such is the stuff of revolutions.
As Nigel Tufnel wisely observed, there's a fine line between clever and stupid.