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Here is a user manual of xv that contains prenty of screenshots: https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pd... I think the "Miscellaneous Ramblings" on the final page really illustrates the color of his personality: Section 13.3: Miscellaneous Ramblings And, of course, thanks to everyone else. If you contributed to the developement of xv in some way, and I
somehow forgot to put you in the big list, my humble apologies. Documentation and careful record-
keeping are not my strong suits. “Heck,” why do you think it takes me a year and a half to come up with a
minor new release? Because, while I love to add new features to the code, I dread documenting the dumb
things. Besides, we all know that writing the documentation is the hardest part of any program.
Particularly when the good folks at id Software insisted upon releasing DOOM II... And finally, thanks to all the folks who’ve written in from hundreds of sites world-wide. You’re the ones
who’ve made xv a real success. (Well, that’s not actually true. My love of nifty user-interfaces, all the
wonderful code I’ve gotten from the folks listed above, and the fact that xv actually serves a useful purpose
(albeit “displaying pictures of naked women”) are the things that have made xv a real success. You folks
who’ve written in have given me a way to measure how successful xv is.) But I digress. Thanks! By the way, when I last counted (in October 1992), xv was in use at 180 different Universities, and dozens
of businesses, goverment agencies, and the like, in 27 countries on 6 of the 7 continents. Since then, I’ve
received messages from hundreds of new sites. And xv has been spotted in Antartica, bringing the total to
7 of 7 continents, and allowing me to claim that xv is, in fact, truly global software. That’s probably a
good thing. Does anybody know if there’s a Unix workstation in the Space Shuttle?... :-) |