Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:30:36 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Dale Chulhan - Home <dchulhan@uwi.tt>, "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, My List <TheTechies@onelist.com>, The Trinidad and Tobago Microsoft BackOffice Users Group <mbug@listbot.com> Subject: Re: Win NT vs UNIX ( cross fire ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104071728100.51874-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <p05100109b6f50eeaf6ed@[194.78.241.123]>
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Brad Knowles wrote: : Uh, no. There were many windowing interfaces for versions of :Unix back in the late 1980's and early 1990's, of which the X Window :System was just one (MIT has a copyright on this technology, and they :insist that you use either that term spelled and capitalized :precisely as I have done, or you simply call it "X"). : : I recall a presentation at the Winter 1990 USENIX technical :conference on a windowing system called "W", which I believe was :either a contemporary of "X", or may have been a precursor. X is decended from W, which came from Stanford. I don't know the dates for it, but X dates from 1984. See http://www.rahul.net/kenton/gettys10.html which is a post made on the 10th aniversary of X in 1994. David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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