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- From: bvh@cse.unl.edu (Obi-Wan)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 05:13:24 GMT
- Organization: MicroImages, Inc.
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- In article <1992Dec16.095907.21145@mfltd.co.uk>, dnh@mfltd.co.uk (Des Herriott) writes:
- > Well, I don't know where the 'quote' originates from, but it's true;
- > X-Windows is not the correct name - either X11, or the X Windowing System,
- > or just X is acceptable.
- >
- > Presumably this is the way it is to avoid confusion with a similarly named,
- > but somewhat inferior, windows system :-)
-
- _SOMEWHAT_ inferior?!?
-
- You obviously haven't used/programmed in MesS Windows enough!
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