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- From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 10:24:25 -0600
- Organization: Cafe Limbo
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- References: <1992Dec16.142232.25225@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- From article <1992Dec16.142232.25225@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, by mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. McCoy):
- > In article 598@lth.se, jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes:
- > |>In article <1992Dec16.092825.25666@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf) writes:
- > |>|> The quote you are looking for is by Jim Fulton, if I remember correctly
- > |>|> and it is:
- > |>|>
- > |>|> "It is a window system called X, not a system called X Windows"
- > |>
- > |>Where can I find this quote?
- > |>I remember seeing it in some X-source or X-manual, but I've forgotten
- > |>where.
- >
- > Are we bored or WHAT? In the file .../mit/README-R4 at the bottom.
- > The quote is, "It's a window system named X, not a system names X Window."
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- Well, both of the above misquote the quote. Maybe I'll be the third:
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- "It's a window system named X, not a system named X Window."
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- By the way, the quote is also found in mit/README from X11R3.
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- Paul DuBois
- dubois@primate.wisc.edu
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