[inforoots] glass ttys

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I remember the early 80s.
The cost of crt termionals was falling.
I remember plain crts that ran close to 20 grand.
By the early 80s, you could get a crt with addressable cursor for under a grand.

Xerox was messing about with this graphics stuff.

I knew lots of people writing apps that used the UNIX "curses" library.

In 1985 I encountered this graphics system from MIT called X10.
It later evolved into X11 (Either that or BSR remote sued them)

Even into the late 80s, I was still seeing more cruses apps than X11.

Of course Im talking about real computers here, not those crappy home things 
that began infesting the workplace.

The REAL question is "What inspired GUI designers".
I fear that is a very complicated question.

1st you have to define the platform you are speaking of.
I would argue that the GUI drive differed from platform to platform.

I knew a lot of Apple developers who jumped into GUIs without ever seeing a 
CRT OR a TTY.

The sad thing is that many of the people who could answer this best have died.