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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.best.com!hokianga.live.com!user From: finlayson@live.com (Ross Finlayson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The invention of the pointing device Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 02:42:35 -0700 Organization: Live Networks, Inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <finlayson-0506960242350001@hokianga.live.com> References: <4ovrb0$o3@anorak.coverform.lan> <oqivd7jc1x.fsf@gallifrey.microunity.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hokianga.live.com >I took a survey of Window Systems course once where > it was said that X was invented at Stanford to run on > an operating system called W, but I don't have any details > or dates. That's close, but not quite right. The original "X" window system design at MIT was based upon a GUI toolkit called "W" that was developed by Paul Asente at Stanford. Paul chose the name "W" because he considered it an improvement upon the window system used by "V" - an experimental distributed operating system being developed by another group at Stanford at that time. Thus: V->W->X Ross.