[aklug] Re: xmonad

I did start out with Windows 1.0 on a 8086. I thought I remembered
having choices of a single window dominating the desktop, or multiple
windows tiled. I don't recall being able to drag windows around the way
we do now. Maybe the desktop was so small and cramped that I just didn't
find dragging them around to be practical.

Thinking back, that thing started out w/ one of those mono-chromatic
orange screens compaq used to be known for. 720 x (something or other)?

Jim G

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 08:35 -0800, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>
> > Probably before your time, sonny ;-), but Windows started out as a
> > "tiling" desktop. The tiling concept didn't go over very well. 640 x 480
> > screens were all the rage then and you can't get many tiles on that size
> > screen, not large enough tiles to be useful anyway.
> >
> > I think W95 was the first one w/ your "floating" windows.
>
> Uh, no, that's not true. I can personally vouch for Windows going back to
> Windows/286 that it wasn't a "tiling" desktop. And the limited resolutions
> are exactly why: tiling desktops weren't truly useful until the higher
> resolutions. Even Windows 3.1, which allowed tiling of *sub* windows within
> an MDI application still managed all main application windows strictly as
> floating windows.
>
> It's important to differentiate between a true "tiling window manager" and a
> normal wm that allows you to tile floating windows. They're not the same
> thing.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die

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Received on Tue Apr 12 18:15:48 2011