Re: X window system

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1 total messages Started by Jay Lepreau Fri, 21 Feb 1986 12:44

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Author: Jay Lepreau
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1986 12:44

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The current release of X also runs on Suns.  A port to the "PC/RT"
will be done soon, and support on other machines is in the works.
Because DEC and MIT have made the source available for not much more
than the price of a tape (it will also be in 4.3 as contributed
software), X may well become the dominant window system out there.
Contrast this to Andrew, a similar but probably more mature window
system from IBM's center at CMU, which IBM only lets out to
Universities.

Kudos to DEC, the opposite to IBM.  And similarly to MIT and CMU--
apparently MIT insisted that its industrial collaborators in Project
Athena make all software publicly available, but CMU did no such
thing with the ITC.

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