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From: jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X's history?
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Date: 8 Sep 90 19:32:42 GMT
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No such thing as Y, unless you want to write it :-).

Paul Asente and Brian Reid developed W, in reaction to VGTS,
on the V system.

Bob Scheifler and I started with W.

All this is in the introduction to "The X Window System", 
Scheifler and Gettys, 2nd edition, Digital Press.  
Digital Press ISBN 1-55558-050-5 or 
Prentis Hall ISBN 0-13-972050-2.
			- Jim