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Subject: Motif's history?
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Date: 7 Sep 90 02:15:40 GMT
Reply-To: rphroy!rcsunb!arvind (Arvind Sabharwal)
Organization: GM Research, Warren, Mi
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I was tracing X's history - Athena project etc. and the fact that X was
inspired
by W from Stanford. (reminiscent of UNIX - a pun on multics).

I know that motif came from User Environment Component of OSF
and was primarily based on DEC/HP submissions. Does anybody know where the word
'motif' came from?

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