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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
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Subject: Re: Motif's history?
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Date: 8 Sep 90 01:38:25 GMT
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In article <33058@rphroy.UUCP> rphroy!rcsunb!arvind (Arvind Sabharwal) writes:
> 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).

At the time, Stanford had a distributed -operating system- call V.
Actually, it was called "the V system" (not system V :-) and their
corresponding distributed windowing system was called Y.  They had
a paper (which I had a copy of) called "Y not X" (clever) and it
described what was wrong with the X protocol and why Y was better.
I've completely forgotten everything about it since I was more
interested in the V system more. :-(

I saw a demo of Y running on a (gasp) sun-1 that had a 68010 *upgrade*
and a client app was running on a uVAX buildings away.  It was compared
against Suntools (before sunview) and was quite reasonable.  The main
problem, it cost $300 to license and my company wouldn't splurge...

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dan
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