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- From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
- Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.194510.18802@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec16.102512.635@moepi.do.open.de> <18161@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:45:10 GMT
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- dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith) writes:
- | Who came up with the name anyways? They should be chased around
- | in the snow at MIT's Tech Square by angry reindeer :-)
-
- And into Kendall Square, and on to the MIT Coop, the major bookshop
- hereabouts, and on into the book section, and up to the entire stack
- devoted to books about...according to the label on the stack...
-
- X WINDOWS
- --
- David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org
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- Shine out, fair sun, with all your heat! Black winter freezes to his seat...
- The boneless fish close quaking lies...the stars in icicles arise!
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