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From: jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What's in a name:  "X Window"
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.183140.28445@crl.dec.com>
Date: 30 Mar 91 18:31:40 GMT
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In article <1991Mar30.162932.20298@smsc.sony.com>, dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
> In article <1991Mar29.231159.24791@ico.isc.com> scottw@ico.isc.com (Scott Wiesner) writes:
> >For a long time, everyone seemed to refer to X as X Windows.  There
> >were lots of comments explaining it's not called X Windows, it's a 
> >window system called X.  In the last year or so, I've seen many references
> >in magazines to "X Window".
> 
> I noticed it too.  In fact, I sent a letter to MacWeek magazine
> responding to a pretty mean-spirited article on "X Window".  In my
> letter, I noted that this wasn't considered to be proper (noting that
> "X" and "The X Windowing System" are preferred, with "X Windows" in
> somewhat common usage).
> 
> My letter was edited to remove this part, and all references to X were
> changed to "X Window".
> 
> I figured it wasn't worth fighting over.

I never heard of an "X Windowing System" or "X Windows"....

How about "X Window System"?

Look at it this way; the companies/magazines/people who get it wrong
makes it easy to identify those who don't know anything about X or
X11...  Therefore easy to ignore...  If they didn't get it wrong, it
would be much harder to identify the amateurs...
			- Jim Gettys