19 Sep
2017
19 Sep
'17
5:39 p.m.
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.
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