Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode...
by DonHopkins on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:12PM
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>I can't remember a single time in the >25 years I've been writing Bourne shell (or bash) scripts where I've wanted to "multiply two floating point numbers".
Your attitude about not being able to imagine any reason why you'd ever need to use floating point reminds me of the HP technical support person that Steve Strassmann quoted in his email to the Unix-Haters mailing list on Apr 10, 1991:
>My super 3D graphics, then, runs only on /dev/crt1, and X windows runs only on /dev/crt0. Of course, this means I cannot move my mouse over to the 3d graphics display, but as the HP technical support person said “Why would you ever need to point to something that you’ve drawn in 3D?”
Your attitude about not being able to imagine any reason why you'd ever need to use floating point reminds me of the HP technical support person that Steve Strassmann quoted in his email to the Unix-Haters mailing list on Apr 10, 1991:
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39...
>My super 3D graphics, then, runs only on /dev/crt1, and X windows runs only on /dev/crt0. Of course, this means I cannot move my mouse over to the 3d graphics display, but as the HP technical support person said “Why would you ever need to point to something that you’ve drawn in 3D?”