How debacles such as micro-kernels and XServer fits into Unix Philosophy?

nickpsecurity · on June 25, 2015

Easy: a number of microkernel-based systems today actually have the properties UNIX pretends to. And to the core.

grymoire1 · on June 25, 2015

Sun had the NeWS windowing system before XWindows. Be glad that did not become the standard. Be very glad.

arethuza · on June 25, 2015

I rather liked NeWS - certainly it was a lot more fun to develop for at that time than X and had some wonderful UI toolkits (particularly HyperNeWS).

For example, being able to draw a shape in a a graphical editor and then paste the shape directly to a window as the shape that window should take was rather cool - and this was in the early 90s!