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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!rook.ukc.ac.uk!eagle.ukc.ac.uk!rlh
  2. From: rlh@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  4. Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
  5. Message-ID: <2642@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 22 Dec 92 15:08:37 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu>
  8. Reply-To: rlh@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
  9. Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
  10. Lines: 14
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: eagle.ukc.ac.uk
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  13. In article <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu> ejw1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
  14. >I remember reading somewhere that the creators of X cringed everytime they 
  15. >heard someone refer to the windowing system as 'X-windows', instead of 
  16. >simply 'X-window'.
  17.  
  18. I thought that "X-Windows" was a trademark of IBM (referring to their
  19. version of the X Window System) but I would rather be wrong about this 8-).
  20.  
  21. The README-R4 file in the R4 source finishes with the quote:
  22.  
  23.                          It's a window system named X,
  24.                           not a system named X Window.
  25.  
  26. Richard
  27.