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From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
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Subject: Re: Is DESQview/X released yet ?
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Date: 31 Mar 91 17:31:28 GMT
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In article <4735@gumby.Altos.COM> jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner) writes:
>P.S.  Nobody in the X world will take you seriously if you call it
>      "X Windows".  The correct name for the system is "X Window".

Actually, the *official* name is "The X Window System".

As it says on the X11R3 release notes (I think): "It's a window system
called X, not a system called X Windows" - I may have paraphrased it
slightly.


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