Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!cit-vax!oberon!bacall!papa
From: papa@bacall.UUCP (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  X or X-Windows?
Message-ID: <2377@bacall.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 23:29:58 EST
Article-I.D.: bacall.2377
Posted: Sat Apr 11 23:29:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Apr-87 05:28:48 EST
References: <7331@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl> <458@laurel.wiley.UUCP> <2968@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <460@laurel.wiley.UUCP>
Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA
Lines: 19
Xref: mnetor comp.sys.mac:2545 comp.sys.atari.st:2943 comp.sys.amiga:3785

> 
> In article <2968@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:
> 
> >   FYI, there is no such thing as 'X Windows'  (you might be confusing
> >   it with MS-Windows.)
> 
> >   The folks at MIT have developed the 'X Window System'.  If that's too
> >   much of a mouthful, call it 'X', thank you very much.
> 
Bob Amstadt responds:
> I stand corrected.

While it is true that the 'real' name is X (do you know that it was derived
from Stanford U. W?), most of the recent trade magazines refer to it as 
X-Windows (with the dash in between).  Even DEC, which founded the project, 
refers it sometime as X-Windows.  Almost all the trade reports of the recent
MIT Conference on X used X-Windows when referring to X.

-- Marco