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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.

Comment Re: Why was the older version better? (Score 1) 75

Many years ago I experienced what seems to have been a bit flip. Newly compiled C programs on our VAX 11/750 running 4.2BSD Unix suddenly stopped working. It turned out that this was due to an error in the file locore.o, with which they were all linked. The installed version of locore.o differed from a freshly assembled one in a single bit of a single byte. The source file locore.s had not been changed nor had the object file been reassembled. The incorrect bit appears to have arisen spontaneously.

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