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From: ballou@databs.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What's in a name:  "X Window"
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.083400@databs.enet.dec.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 13:36:45 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.183140.28445@crl.dec.com> <1991Mar29.231159.24791@ico.isc.com> <1991Mar30.162932.20298@smsc.sony.com>
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In article <1991Mar30.183140.28445@crl.dec.com>, jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
writes:
|> >  [...]
|> > 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"?
|> 

And here I am, wondering how anyone in their right mind could define
such a nonsensical window system interface!

Geeshhhh.

Nat