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Article #15515Re: X or X-Windows?
From: Marco Papa
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1987 04:29
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1987 04:29
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> > In article <2968@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes: > > > FYI, there is no such thing as 'X Windows' (you might be confusing > > it with MS-Windows.) > > > The folks at MIT have developed the 'X Window System'. If that's too > > much of a mouthful, call it 'X', thank you very much. > Bob Amstadt responds: > I stand corrected. While it is true that the 'real' name is X (do you know that it was derived from Stanford U. W?), most of the recent trade magazines refer to it as X-Windows (with the dash in between). Even DEC, which founded the project, refers it sometime as X-Windows. Almost all the trade reports of the recent MIT Conference on X used X-Windows when referring to X. -- Marco
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!cit-vax!oberon!bacall!papa From: papa@bacall.UUCP (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: X or X-Windows? Message-ID: <2377@bacall.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 23:29:58 EST Article-I.D.: bacall.2377 Posted: Sat Apr 11 23:29:58 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 05:28:48 EST References: <7331@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl> <458@laurel.wiley.UUCP> <2968@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <460@laurel.wiley.UUCP> Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA Lines: 19