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- From: stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf)
- Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
- References: <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Originator: stumpf@hphalle0.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 09:28:25 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.092825.25666@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu>, ejw1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Eric Weidl) writes:
- |> I remember reading somewhere that the creators of X cringed everytime they
- |> heard someone refer to the windowing system as 'X-windows', instead of
- |> simply 'X-window'. Does anybody have a reference for the quote? Is there any
- |> other source for pointing out to people the error of their ways?
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- You aren't right, either.
- You should call it X Window System or X oder X11. That's it.
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- The quote you are looking for is by Jim Fulton, if I remember correctly
- and it is:
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- "It is a window system called X, not a system called X Windows"
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- I dunno if this still is true, but someone mentioned some time ago, there
- is a company in the US selling a product called Xwindows, which has nothing
- to do with X at all.
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- Ciao
- \Maex
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