From: richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: [TUHS] X and NeWS history (long)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:17:04 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170913151704.645B115230E4@macaroni.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Larry McVoy's message of Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:58:51 -0700
> The rest of your story is great, just one small correction. SunView started
> as something Sun specific but it pretty quickly became a library on top of
> X11. I'm not sure if it ever worked on X10, I think it did but I'm not sure.
As I recall it, SunTools (the original Sun window system) was renamed
SunView, and the API was ported to X11 under the name XView.
> Source: I've hacked up GUI interfaces for the SCM I did at Sun in Sunview.
> This would have been around 1990, is that still X10 or X11?
X11 came out in 1987. I The first version I remember using is X11R3,
which came out in 1988.
See https://www.x.org/wiki/X11R1 (and .../X11R2 etc)
-- Richard
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-13 15:17 Richard Tobin [this message]
2017-09-13 16:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-14 1:08 ` Nemo
2017-09-14 3:14 ` Larry McVoy
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2017-09-14 12:30 Richard Tobin
2017-09-14 15:12 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-13 18:54 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2017-09-13 21:27 ` ron minnich
2017-09-08 20:54 [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! Dave Horsfall
2017-09-08 21:14 ` William Pechter
2017-09-11 16:30 ` Paul Winalski
2017-09-11 16:49 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! [ really sun vs dec/apollo ] Jon Steinhart
2017-09-11 23:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-12 7:38 ` arnold
2017-09-12 15:35 ` [TUHS] Happy birthday, Dennis Ritchie! [ really sun vs dec/apollo --> X and NeWS ] Jon Steinhart
2017-09-12 17:04 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-12 22:11 ` [TUHS] X and NeWS history (long) Jon Steinhart
2017-09-12 22:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-09-12 23:22 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-12 23:44 ` Chris Torek
2017-09-12 23:41 ` Adam Sampson
2017-09-13 0:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-13 0:29 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-13 0:52 ` ron minnich
2017-09-13 0:54 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-13 0:56 ` ron minnich
2017-09-13 0:57 ` Warner Losh
2017-09-13 2:06 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-09-13 3:34 ` ron minnich
2017-09-13 3:55 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-13 15:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-13 1:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-09-13 2:27 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-13 16:14 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-09-13 0:56 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-13 1:34 ` Bakul Shah
2017-09-13 2:43 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-13 3:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-13 3:25 ` Grant Taylor
2017-09-13 3:27 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-09-13 15:09 ` Tony Finch
2017-09-13 15:19 ` Jon Steinhart
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