aix's "Enhanced X Windows"
Bill Wohler
wohler at sapwdf.UUCP
Wed Apr 3 17:16:32 AEST 1991
this message from jim made me chuckle. but don't tell him i was the
one who gave ibm a clue...
--bw
wohler at sap-ag.de
From: jg at crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What's in a name: "X Window"
Date: 30 Mar 91 18:31:40 GMT
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
> In article <1991Mar29.231159.24791 at ico.isc.com> scottw at ico.isc.com (Scott Wiesner) writes:
> >For a long time, everyone seemed to refer to X as X Windows. There
> >were lots of comments explaining it's not called X Windows, it's a
> >window system called X. In the last year or so, I've seen many references
> >in magazines to "X Window".
I never heard of an "X Windowing System" or "X Windows"....
How about "X Window System"?
Look at it this way; the companies/magazines/people who get it wrong
makes it easy to identify those who don't know anything about X or
X11... Therefore easy to ignore... If they didn't get it wrong, it
would be much harder to identify the amateurs...
- Jim Gettys
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