Comment starbase graphics (Score 3, Interesting) 152
Does anyone remember Starbase graphics, the graphics/windowing system that came with HP-UX? Back in the 1980s we got a bunch of Bobcat's running HP-UX, with, for the time, lovely big color graphics terminals and thought they were great. Coming from 4.2BSD on Vaxen, HP-UX was a little weird - I still have code with #ifdefs in it for HP-UX - but it wasn't that weird, Starbase was easy to use. It was also closely tied to HPGL, so if you had something that ran a terminal, it was easy to send it to a pen plotter. Even so, it was an improvement in the end to move from HP-UX to BSD and from Starbase to X Windows.