[comp.windows.x] X's history?

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