[Info-vax] Windows X server?
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Sep 18 10:41:57 EDT 2023
On 9/18/2023 8:17 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-09-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> Personally I have never liked X. I failed miserable
>> learning X 30 years ago. It was probably a mistake
>> to pick Macro-32 as the language for X. :-)
>
> Picking Macro-32 to write any application is _always_ a mistake. :-)
The logic was that I had Macro-32 code for VT (SYS$QIOW not SMG$),
disk (SYS$QIOW not RMS) and tape (SYS$QIOW again), so for this new
type of IO then I decided to use Macro-32 as well. Total failure.
Arne
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