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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Early X (or W?) sighting from 1984
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 07:24:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7w1qmeus0a.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)

I found this 1984 video about MIT's Project Athena.  A few VAXstation
100 are visible running some demos in a windowing system.  Nothing
exciting unfortunately, just a few seconds and no details visible.

Since X was started in 1984, it could be a very early version we see
here.  I asked Jim Gettys, and he suggested it could also be W since it
was apparently used before X in Project Athena.

https://youtu.be/tG7i7HCD9g0?t=28

I checked the xdemo director in X10R3 (earliest available so far) for a
match against the circle demo, but all samples are written in CLU...

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