Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!shelby!bloom-beacon!ncd.COM!jim From: jim@ncd.COM (Jim Fulton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Why do so many "great" people dislike X? Message-ID: <9009041629.AA23508@hansen.com> Date: 4 Sep 90 08:29:46 GMT References: <11813@chaph.usc.edu> Sender: jim@ncd.com Organization: Network Computing Devices, Mountain View, CA Lines: 7 Who're the people who did X anyway? I never heard any names apart from the keyword 'MIT'. The introduction to the DP book X Window System: C Library and Protocol Reference by Gettys, Scheifler, and Newman contains a good introduction to the history of and principles behind the design of X.