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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 05:34:40 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1992Dec29.023817.18087@asd.com> <kbibb.725606456@maui> <1992Dec29.201610.522@asd.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.201610.522@asd.com> scott@asd.com (Scott Barman) writes:
- >In article <kbibb.725606456@maui> kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) writes:
- >>X was developed by DEC.
-
- >Excuse me? Do you know what you are talking about? X was developed by
- >MIT. They might have used grants from DEC and a lot of X ideas may have
- >come from DEC Windows, but X is from MIT.
-
- Actually, X was developed by Project Athena, which was a joint project
- between MIT, DEC, and IBM. I believe that quite a few of the X designers
- (including Gettys) were DEC employees assigned to Project Athena; they
- worked *at* MIT but worked *for* DEC. The Athena contract stipulated that
- software developed as a result would not be proprietary, so X (and
- Kerberos, Zephyr, etc.) are freely available.
-
- And isn't DECWindows just the name for the implementation of X that you get
- from DEC? If so, then DECWindows took ideas from X, not vice versa.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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