news@rphroy.UUCP (news) (09/07/90)
I was tracing X's history - Athena project etc. and the fact that X was inspired by W from Stanford. (reminiscent of UNIX - a pun on multics). I know that motif came from User Environment Component of OSF and was primarily based on DEC/HP submissions. Does anybody know where the word 'motif' came from? Arvind Sabharwal ___ Phone: (313)986-1959 Fax:(313)986-2661 Computing Systems Dept. .___/___\_ CSNet: arvind@gmr.com GM Research Labs /_________\ UUCP: sharkey!cfctech!rphroy!rcsunb!arvind Warren, MI 48090 USA o o Internet: arvind@ss0.eng.wayne.edu
argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) (09/08/90)
In article <33058@rphroy.UUCP> rphroy!rcsunb!arvind (Arvind Sabharwal) writes: > I was tracing X's history - Athena project etc. and the fact that X was > inspired > by W from Stanford. (reminiscent of UNIX - a pun on multics). At the time, Stanford had a distributed -operating system- call V. Actually, it was called "the V system" (not system V :-) and their corresponding distributed windowing system was called Y. They had a paper (which I had a copy of) called "Y not X" (clever) and it described what was wrong with the X protocol and why Y was better. I've completely forgotten everything about it since I was more interested in the V system more. :-( I saw a demo of Y running on a (gasp) sun-1 that had a 68010 *upgrade* and a client app was running on a uVAX buildings away. It was compared against Suntools (before sunview) and was quite reasonable. The main problem, it cost $300 to license and my company wouldn't splurge... -- dan ---------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly && Associates argv@sun.com / argv@ora.com Opinions expressed reflect those of the author only.