Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!uwvax!persoft!dag From: dag@persoft.com (Daniel A. Glasser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: X name (was Re: The whole story on Gateway) Message-ID: <1991Apr04.192106.27656@persoft.com> Date: 4 Apr 91 19:21:06 GMT References: <1991Mar27.162821.2498@cs.mcgill.ca> <1991Mar31.223127.12766@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <101922@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Persoft, Inc. Lines: 11 In article <101922@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mcmillan@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Harold McMillan) writes: >On another topic, I have seen some discussion of the name of The X >Window System. from a t-shirt that I got at an X11 conference a few years back... "It's a windowing system named 'X', not a system named 'X Windows'" [I have a Gateway-2000, (33 MHz 386) and am pretty happy with it.] -- Daniel A. Glasser | Persoft, Inc. | dag@persoft.com "Their brains were small, and they died."