rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (09/08/90)
Actually, it was called "the V system" (not system V :-) and their corresponding distributed windowing system was called Y. Interesting. I'm not familiar with Y. I *am* familiar with VGTS (Virtual Graphics Terminal System), done by Lantz and Nowicki, which is what I would have said was the distributed windowing system for V. VGTS came before W; the VGTS papers I know about are dated 1984. When did Y exist?
jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (09/09/90)
No such thing as Y, unless you want to write it :-). Paul Asente and Brian Reid developed W, in reaction to VGTS, on the V system. Bob Scheifler and I started with W. All this is in the introduction to "The X Window System", Scheifler and Gettys, 2nd edition, Digital Press. Digital Press ISBN 1-55558-050-5 or Prentis Hall ISBN 0-13-972050-2. - Jim