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- From: mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. McCoy)
- Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.182014.10193@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1gnl7pINNcue@uakari.primate.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:20:14 GMT
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- In article 1gnl7pINNcue@uakari.primate.wisc.edu, bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) writes:
- |>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 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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- Okay, okay, I'm so-o-o-o sorry. I mispelled named and put names instead.
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- |>
- |>Well, both of the above misquote the quote. Maybe I'll be the third:
- |>
- |> "It's a window system named X, not a system named X Window."
- |>
- |>By the way, the quote is also found in mit/README from X11R3.
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