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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: <1992Dec16.152250.10302@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 15:22:50 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec16.092825.25666@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Dec16.092825.25666@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf) writes:
- >
- >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?
- >
- >You aren't right, either.
- >You should call it X Window System or X oder X11. That's it.
-
- You're right. I meant to say 'simply 'X windowing system''. My mistake.
-
- >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"
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- I'm not sure that's the quote I remember, either, but it's good enough.
-
- >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.
-
- I think you're right. I believe it's a X server for machines running
- MS Windows. I saw an ad for it recently in one of the pc magazines.
-
- >Ciao
- > \Maex
- >--
- >______________________________________________________________________________
- > Markus Stumpf Markus.Stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE
-
- Eric
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- Eric Weidl e-weidl@uchicago.edu
- University of Chicago
- Biological Sciences Division Academic Computing
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