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From: aps@ieee.org (Armando Stettner)
Subject: [TUHS] Classic Unix workstation GUIs
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:13:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D1C987-1C13-403D-8A4D-D0939BAC7CB0@ieee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209121020.q8CAKIIK022697@freefriends.org>

Yes, Sun Windows did predate wide-spread use of X Windows.  I'm not sure that it predates X Windows' existence (or that of its predecessor from Stanford).  Jim Gettys?

I do remember Scott McNeily (spelling) saying that Sun would adopt X as its window system over "over my dead body.".  :)

   aps

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On Sep 12, 2012, at 6:20 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:

> I believe that the original Sun Windowing system also predated widespread
> use of X Windows.
> 
> Larry?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Arnold
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-12 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-20  2:40 Michael Kerpan
2012-08-20  2:53 ` Pat Barron
2012-08-20  3:28   ` Larry McVoy
2012-08-20  3:05 ` Larry McVoy
2012-09-11  6:58 ` Aaron J. Grier
2012-09-11  8:03   ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-09-11  8:41     ` Pierre DAVID
2012-09-11 12:12       ` Jeremy C. Reed
2012-09-11 12:40         ` Ronald Natalie
2012-09-11 12:55           ` Pierre DAVID
2012-09-11 19:30     ` Aaron J. Grier
2012-09-12  5:33     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2012-09-12 10:20       ` arnold
2012-09-12 11:13         ` Armando Stettner [this message]
2012-09-13  6:58         ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-09-13 10:22           ` Ronald Natalie
2012-08-21 13:46 William von Hagen
2012-08-21 14:25 ` Larry McVoy
2012-08-21 17:54 ` ron
2012-08-21 17:56   ` Larry McVoy
2012-08-23 21:23 ` asbesto
2012-08-24  0:00   ` Michael Kerpan
2012-08-31 17:54 ` asbesto
2012-08-28 13:17 Berny G

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