From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 7 15:31: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from backup.enteract.com (backup.enteract.com [207.229.143.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D25537B424 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 15:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by backup.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f37MUa158466; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:30:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 17:30:36 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com To: Brad Knowles Cc: Dale Chulhan - Home , "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" , My List , The Trinidad and Tobago Microsoft BackOffice Users Group Subject: Re: Win NT vs UNIX ( cross fire ) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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