rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (10/31/90)
"Meanwhile, as a courtesy to software developers, the X Consortium
has agreed to freeze through 1991 X Windows' [sic] core
specifications at the X11 level."
Let me try to restate that in meaningful terms. "In order to provide a
stable base for software developers, the X Consortium as a rule does not
make incompatible changes to its standards. A minimum of three years of
stability is seen as essential. That does not mean no new functionality
will be added, just that existing interfaces will not be changed in
incompatible ways."
Will there be an X12 in the foreseeable future?
Coming to a theater near you on April 1, 1993.gsh7w@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) (10/31/90)
Bob Scheifler writes:
# Will there be an X12 in the foreseeable future?
#
#Coming to a theater near you on April 1, 1993.
Available by anonymous ftp from kremvax I assume?
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-Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
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UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7wjg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (10/31/90)
Actually, we decided in deference to parents, that the next version of X will be renamed NC-17. As Bob said, coming to a theater near you April 1, 1993... - Jim
jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (11/01/90)
In article <1990Oct31.031954.3305@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, gsh7w@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes: > Bob Scheifler writes: > # Will there be an X12 in the foreseeable future? > # > #Coming to a theater near you on April 1, 1993. > > Available by anonymous ftp from kremvax I assume? You laugh... May not be a joke by then... Electronic mail connectivity into the USSR now exists. Here is a message I got a few weeks ago.... And this is no April fools joke... I find this incredibly heartening, personally... I wonder how many X users there are in the USSR right now, and if they are listening to comp.windows.x... If so, I wonder if one of them will post something. - Jim To: wrl@decwrl.dec.com, nsl-interest@decwrl.dec.com Subject: my first E-mail from the Soviet Union Date: Sat, 13 Oct 90 11:11:38 PDT From: Brian Reid <reid@decwrl.dec.com> Today I got this message from somebody in the Soviet Union, asking for a copy of a file from a softare system of mine. The data path seems to have come through Finland (fuug.fi). I don't know what "JV Dialogue" is, save that it must be the subdomain jvd.msk.su ------- Forwarded Message Replied: 13 Oct 90 11:01 Return-Path: nms@saukh.jvd.msk.su Received: by jove.pa.dec.com; id AA28557; Sat, 13 Oct 90 10:57:57 -0700 Received: by decwrl.dec.com; id AA13035; Sat, 13 Oct 90 10:56:40 -0700 Received: by mcsun.EU.net with SMTP; Sat, 13 Oct 90 18:56:28 +0100 Received: by fuug.fi; id AA05300; Sat, 13 Oct 90 19:56:20 +0200 Received: by jumbo.hq.demos.su; Sat, 13 Oct 90 20:51:38 +0300 (MSK) Received: by kiae; Sat, 13 Oct 90 20:09:35 +0300 (MSK) Received: by jvdrd.jvd.msk.su; Sat, 13 Oct 90 20:05:50 +0300 (MSK) Received: by saukh.jvd.msk.su; Sat, 13 Oct 90 19:58:14 +0300 (MSK) To: reid Date: Sat, 13 Oct 90 19:58:10 MSK From: Nickolay Saukh <nms@saukh.jvd.msk.su> Subject: m.maps.hdr Message-Id: <AAZUq5daA2@saukh.jvd.msk.su> X-Mailer: Elm [version 1.5] Could you email it to me? - -- Nickolay Saukh <nms@jvd.msk.su> | Speaking from but not for JV Dialogue To: wrl@decwrl.dec.com, nsl-interest@decwrl.dec.com Subject: Re: my first E-mail from the Soviet Union In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 13 Oct 90 11:11:38 -0700. <9010131811.AA18005@gnome8.pa.dec.com> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 90 11:31:03 PDT From: Brian Reid <reid@decwrl.dec.com> Maybe nobody but me cares about this, but I'm pleased as punch to get mail from the Soviet Union. I've tracked down the path. The mail took this route to get to me: jvdrd.jvd.msk.su Joint Venture Dialogue, 13 Spartakovskaya ul, SU-107066 Moscow kiae.su Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow jumbo.hq.demos.su Demos Co-operative, pod.1 d.6 Ovchinnikovskaya nab., SU-113035 Moscow fuug.fi Finnish Unix system Users Group, Arkadiankatu 14 B 45, SF-00100 Helsinki, Finland mcsun.eu.net European Unix systems User Group (EUUG), CWI, Kruislaan 413, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands decwrl.dec.com Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Lab 100 Hamilton Avenue UCO-3, Palo Alto, CA 94301-1616
drl@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (11/01/90)
Let's see .... W -> X -> NC-17 -> ??? -> NCC-1701[ABCD...] Virtual Desktop Space, the final frontier??? David
geer@CRL.DEC.COM (11/01/90)
As we speak, the first meeting of SUUG, the Soviet Unix Users Group, is taking place in Moscow. Last week, at least two reps from that group attended EurOpen (nee EUUG). As I recall, at one of the two meetings there is a talk roughly called ``Living without the source''. --dan