From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: steve@sk2.org (Stephen Kitt) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:19:06 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] old X versions 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> <1620f879-e4be-7fca-8bf7-a1a8896d8ba1@case.edu> <8e0ad468-ddc0-72b8-e1fb-3111f6c33314@case.edu> Message-ID: <20170919211906.49124f1a@heffalump.sk2.org> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:43:59 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/19/17 2:32 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: > > As I understand it, Scheifler began with W, which Paul Asente and Chris > > Kent had ported to Unix and given him a copy. He initially replaced its > > synchronous protocol with an asynchronous one and went on from there. > > This is covered in one of the original Athena papers: The X Window System > by Scheifler and Gettys. I have the full set of "Project Athena: The First > Ten Years"; it's in volume 1. I think that paper was presented at a > couple of conferences, so there are probably copies floating around on the > net somewhere. E.g. in the ACM’s Digital Library: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=24053 (from ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 5 Issue 2). Regards, Stephen