From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:40:31 +1200 (NZST) Subject: [TUHS] old X versions (was:X and NeWS history) In-Reply-To: References: <201709111649.v8BGnGTx005812@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20170911230910.GH7819@mcvoy.com> <201709120738.v8C7ckOF007026@freefriends.org> <201709121535.v8CFZOuB015695@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <201709122211.v8CMB3pf029787@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <201709130014.v8D0EHEi021561@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <1505781872.3170445.1110508336.1E68BC0D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <201709191405.v8JE5iI5027378@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: <1505864431.59c1aaefb90c0@www.paradise.net.nz> Quoting Gregg Levine : > Hello! > Wasn't the original project called "Athena", and wasn't it pursued by > one of the many Labs at MIT? I remember going over it in a big way > about the same time I started being an almost serious kernel hacker, > and that was while the kernel created by Linus was using BitKeeper as > its source control mechanism. This was around the turn of the century. > > Oddly enough I also pursued and engaged a company who attempted to > combine an early X release with thier DOS based multitasking tool. The > discussion was rewarding, but it did not save the company. DeskView/X? I came across that in the early nineties and thought it sounded promising, but as I heard nothing more of it after a while I thought, they've gone under. Wesley Parish > ----- > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Jon Steinhart > wrote: > > Nigel Williams writes: > >> Is the forerunner of X, I think called W? still around somewhere in > source-form? > > > > No clue. Did a quick search and didn't find it. > "I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor, Method for Guitar "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel Goldwyn