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From: gja@etive.ed.ac.uk (A Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: [Stolen] Macintosh ROM Source
Message-ID: <2339@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jun 89 13:20:45 GMT
References: <843@orbit.UUCP> <9968@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: gja@etive.ed.ac.uk (A Cunningham)
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In article <9968@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
>In article <843@orbit.UUCP> granteri@pnet51.cts.com (Grant Erickson) writes:
>
>Just to set the record straight, X Windows was completely independent
>of MacOs.  It derived from the Andrew Window System and a couple of
>others.  It had nothing whatsoever to do with MacOs.

	I think you are mistaken about X. It was developed independently
as part of project Athena at MIT. I think it was CMU who developed Andrew.
I heard a talk recently from J.H.Saltzer (Technical Director, Project 
Athena 1984-1988) who described his visit to CMU and how they sent a tape
of X to CMU in exchange for a tape of Andrew sources. However IBM stopped
CMU from sending MIT a tape because they had rights to all Andrew software.
It seems MIT were smart enough to demand that they keep the rights to all the
work from Athena. The upshot is that there are a lot more X users than Andrew
users :-)
		Tony

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