11 Jul
2016
11 Jul
'16
10:52 p.m.
Ok, I hope this question isn't too off-topic...
I was looking through the X10R3 source tree trying to find the
earliest paint program for X. I wasn't able to see anything that
looked like a paint program.
Xpaint might be the oldest, wikipedia says the first version appeared in 1989.
Searching for xpaint on tuhs returned no matches, but I saw that
4.3BSD-Tahoe had some old X programs but nothing listed there seemed
to be a paint program.
Maybe xgedit? It's listed as a "simple graphic editor for the X window
system", but I don't know if it really qualifies as a paint program.
Mark
11 Jul
11 Jul
11:04 p.m.
There might have been a simpler icon editor. My memory of the early X stuff is pretty
hazy.
On Jul 11, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Mark Longridge
<cubexyz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, I hope this question isn't too off-topic...
I was looking through the X10R3 source tree trying to find the
earliest paint program for X. I wasn't able to see anything that
looked like a paint program.
Xpaint might be the oldest, wikipedia says the first version appeared in 1989.
Searching for xpaint on tuhs returned no matches, but I saw that
4.3BSD-Tahoe had some old X programs but nothing listed there seemed
to be a paint program.
Maybe xgedit? It's listed as a "simple graphic editor for the X window
system", but I don't know if it really qualifies as a paint program.
Mark
11:08 p.m.
I was a server guy. I did one of the first cfb drivers for a 24 bit (RasterOps)
framebuffer. Did some extension work for HP, wrote two servers for IBM (on the i860 no
less) and one for Dome Imaging.
On Jul 11, 2016, at 7:05 PM, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 07:04:18PM -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote:
There might have been a simpler icon editor. My
memory of the early X stuff is pretty hazy.
My memory of early X stuff is porting it to everything. Masscomps, Suns,
IBM RTs. Port, port, port. 
11:36 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016, at 19:04, Ronald Natalie wrote:
There might have been a simpler icon editor. My
memory of the early X
stuff is pretty hazy.
"bitmap" has a copyright (MIT) date of 1985. It does appear to be geared
to icon editing, the manpage says it has trouble with sizes greater than
99x99.
11:56 p.m.
Yes, that sounds like the thing I’m remembering.
On Jul 11, 2016, at 7:36 PM, Random832
<random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016, at 19:04, Ronald Natalie wrote:
There might have been a simpler icon editor. My
memory of the early X
stuff is pretty hazy.
"bitmap" has a copyright (MIT) date of 1985. It does appear to be geared
to icon editing, the manpage says it has trouble with sizes greater than
99x99. 
12 Jul
12 Jul
1:17 a.m.
Not for X, but there was a bitmap editor called Markup on the Xerox Alto by 1976.
See
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/15a-AltoHandbook/15a…
for the user’s guide.
-Larry
11 Jul
11 Jul
11:05 p.m.
Mark Longridge <cubexyz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Ok, I hope this question isn't too off-topic...
I was looking through the X10R3 source tree trying to find the
earliest paint program for X. I wasn't able to see anything that
looked like a paint program.
Xpaint might be the oldest, wikipedia says the first version appeared in 1989.
Island paint exists since aprox. 1986, I am not sure if/when it has been ported
from SunView to X.
Jörg
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