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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!scslwide!wsgw!wsservra!onoe
  2. From: rlh@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh)
  3. Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
  4. Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.175428.7169@sm.sony.co.jp>
  6. Date: 22 Dec 92 17:54:28 GMT
  7. Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
  8. Distribution: fj
  9. Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
  10. Lines: 20
  11. Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
  12.  
  13. Date: 22 Dec 92 15:08:37 GMT
  14. Message-Id: <2642@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
  15. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  16. References: <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu>
  17. Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
  18.  
  19. In article <1992Dec15.195043.8442@midway.uchicago.edu> ejw1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
  20. >I remember reading somewhere that the creators of X cringed everytime they 
  21. >heard someone refer to the windowing system as 'X-windows', instead of 
  22. >simply 'X-window'.
  23.  
  24. I thought that "X-Windows" was a trademark of IBM (referring to their
  25. version of the X Window System) but I would rather be wrong about this 8-).
  26.  
  27. The README-R4 file in the R4 source finishes with the quote:
  28.  
  29.                          It's a window system named X,
  30.                           not a system named X Window.
  31.  
  32. Richard
  33.