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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:21:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: How to make Ghostscript 5.50 using native windows GUI
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> No, actually, I didn't know that.  Any URL pointers, I don't think
> search for W will get me close to the project.

For history of X, see "The X window system" by Robert Scheifler and Jim 
Gettys. W was the windowing system for the V research project at Stanford 
(W was Paul Asente's thesis topic at Stanford), a good chunk of which 
Sheifler at MIT used to implement X (1984), and then came the first public
release in 1985, Project Athena, X consortium ...

Regards,
Mumit



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