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by jesuslop 1519 days ago
It looked vintage even in the nineties
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Even in 1990. :) But, on Unix workstations in 1990, you'd still occasionally run an Xaw program, and Xfig was obviously a step or two above that. Xfig looked opinionated in a really advanced 1980s way.

I still occasionally used Xfig, over the years, when I needed to draw a diagram, and the other options readily available on whatever Unix/Linux box were garbage. Xfig somehow kept working.

And this not exaggerated :)

It always looked like running on open/blackbox with no further dependencies installed.