On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:43:59 -0400, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)case.edu> wrote:
On 9/19/17 2:32 PM, Chet Ramey 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.
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.
E.g. in the ACM’s Digital Library:
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=24053
(from ACM Transactions on Graphics Volume 5 Issue 2).
Regards,
Stephen