papa@bacall.UUCP (Marco Papa) (04/12/87)
> > In article <2968@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes: > > > FYI, there is no such thing as 'X Windows' (you might be confusing > > it with MS-Windows.) > > > The folks at MIT have developed the 'X Window System'. If that's too > > much of a mouthful, call it 'X', thank you very much. > Bob Amstadt responds: > I stand corrected. While it is true that the 'real' name is X (do you know that it was derived from Stanford U. W?), most of the recent trade magazines refer to it as X-Windows (with the dash in between). Even DEC, which founded the project, refers it sometime as X-Windows. Almost all the trade reports of the recent MIT Conference on X used X-Windows when referring to X. -- Marco