20 Sep
2017
20 Sep
'17
12:43 a.m.
On 9/19/17 2:32 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 9/19/17 2:23 PM, Nemo wrote:
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.
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On 19 September 2017 at 11:39, Chet Ramey
<chet.ramey(a)case.edu> 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. On 9/19/17 11:16 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
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. 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.