On: X12: Requirements for a successor to the X11 proto...

[adrianmsmith]

XFree86 in 1999 might not have been, but in 1994 when I went to university in the UK and was using Sun computers which were solely X servers to display programs running on the "main" shared computer in the corner of the room, X and all the associated software was all stable and worked fine.

[vetinari → adrianmsmith]

At our uni, we used DEC and had vxt2000 terminals. It worked fine, just like wayland does today. But it wasn't rock stable, or even remotely secure.

[wkat4242 → vetinari]

Secure no, lol. But in those days telnet was still the norm.

At my college they didn't even have xauth implemented which was loads of fun embarrassing other users with xv and some cool pictures :P Or xblast

[vetinari → wkat4242]

We didn't have xauth either; our fun was xeyes.

[pjmlp → adrianmsmith]

Solaris X Server wasn't the same.