Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!mit-eddie!media-lab!lacsap From: lacsap@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: X11 for the NeXTstation Summary: UIS preceded X at Digital Message-ID: <4865@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 14 Jan 91 02:55:53 GMT References: <1991Jan10.020437.14465@cs.mcgill.ca> <17136@csli.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jan12.184047.12724@wam.umd.edu> Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 24 In article <1991Jan12.184047.12724@wam.umd.edu>, rgc@wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler) writes: > In article <4850@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> lacsap@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais) writes: > >In article , melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >ALL major manufacturers started off with their own window system, and then > >eventually supported X. I have seen this evolution over a few years, NeXT > ... > Correction...DEC's first major windowing system was X (they and MIT wrote it!). When I posted my message I was sure I had seen another window system at Digital... remember these are the guys who brought you VMS on the Vaxens before Unix/Ultrix(officially)... So not wanting to stick my foot too deep down my throat I asked Jim Getty (one of the two co-authors of the original X release) if there existed an official window system at Digital prior to X, here is his response: Sure. It is called UIS. People still use it (though we don't make it work on newer hardware these days). - Jim --- pasc -- Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group Media Laboratory, E15-348, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Ma, 02139 (617) 253-0311 email: lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu (NeXT)