From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:23:30 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] old X versions In-Reply-To: <1620f879-e4be-7fca-8bf7-a1a8896d8ba1@case.edu> 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> Message-ID: On 19 September 2017 at 11:39, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/19/17 11:16 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: >> Hello! >> Wasn't the original project called "Athena", and wasn't it pursued by >> one of the many Labs at MIT? > > The athena project was indeed at MIT, and X was a part of that. This > would have been started and developed during the mid-1980s (1983, to be > exact). X's predecessor was a window system named W, which was developed > at Stanford. Bob Scheifler used W as the basis for X. I vaguely recall (assuming no bit rot) that IBM was also involved and they refused to release their portion under FRAND terms, leading Bob to write X. Anecodotes on W/X may be found in the delightful little book written by Borenstein titled "Programming as if people mattered". N. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/