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Started by Robert Krawitz
Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:00
Re: Dream OS = Linux
Author: Robert Krawitz
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:00
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> Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@uunet.uu.net Tall Clubs International -- tci-request@think.com or 1-800-521-2512
Re: Dream OS = Linux
Author: Dan Pop
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 21:09
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 -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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