Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Robert Krawitz
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:00

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In article <808728024.26076@codesmth.demon.co.uk> dingbat@codesmth.demon.co.uk (Andy Dingley) writes:

   lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie (Lars Hecking) wrote:

   >There is no such thing as "X-windows":

   Do I detect the hand of Bill, and a registered trademark for
   "Windows"?

X considerably predates MS Windows.  I first used it as X9 in 1985.
The X Consortium (and prior to that MIT, DEC, and IBM) have been
discouraging the use of the term "X-windows" for most, if not all, of
that time.
-- 
Robert Krawitz <rlk@tiac.net>

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From: rlk@laraby.tiac.net (Robert Krawitz)
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Subject: Re: Dream OS = Linux
Date: 18 Aug 1995 13:00:54 GMT
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