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- From: ejw1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Eric Weidl)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.151532.10054@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 15:15:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec16.102512.635@moepi.do.open.de>
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- Organization: Academic and Public Computing
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- In article <1992Dec16.102512.635@moepi.do.open.de> bernward@moepi.do.open.de (Bernward Averwald) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu> ejw1@midway.uchicago.edu 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?
- >
- >Yes, there is (RTFM):
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- I DID RTFM. If you read my message, you would have known I had. I was asking
- the question because I couldn't remember WHICH manual the quote was in.
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- >Bernward
- >--
- >Bernward Averwald, Heinrichstr. 42, D-4600 Dortmund 1, Voice: +49 231 144048
- >FAX: +49 231 144047, email: bernward@moepi.do.open.de b@rcc.de
- > Lange Hunde, Kurze Menschen - von Schmidt
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- Eric
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- Eric Weidl e-weidl@uchicago.edu
- University of Chicago
- Biological Sciences Division Academic Computing
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