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The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

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110 points zdw | 3 comments | 23 Jun 25 03:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.277s | source
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beej71 ◴[23 Jun 25 05:48 UTC] No.44352770[source]▶
The good old days. We had a bunch of X terminals hooked up with thin net to some HP735 servers in college.
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1. HenryBemis ◴[23 Jun 25 06:26 UTC] No.44352992[source]▶
In those good old days my Uni was giving away those bulky Unix "manuals" (after every major upgrade they were refreshing the documentation/dossiers) and they would leave on a table a few dozens of the 'outdated' ones. Everyone would grab one and it was a first-come-first-served, and you could end up in a 'useless' dossier, but still they were amazing reads.
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2. bluGill ◴[23 Jun 25 13:06 UTC] No.44355427[source]▶
I miss the days of useful manuals. They were hard and expensive to write, but they had a wealth of technical information that is often impossible to find today.
3. arethuza ◴[23 Jun 25 13:58 UTC] No.44355881[source]▶
One of the nice things when getting a new Sun workstation back in the day (say 1990 or so) was getting vast amounts of excellent printed documentation and folders into which they had to be clipped. Sun even used to supply proper books (e.g. the PostScript books) with OpenWindows to cover NeWS...