Re: Dream OS = Linux

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:09

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In <4122u6$jpc@sundog.tiac.net> rlk@laraby.tiac.net (Robert Krawitz) writes:

>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.

X was born in 1984, as the successor of W.

Dan
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