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September 15th was the 30th anniversary of the anniversary of X11
The X11 window system turns 30 years old today! X11 which still lives on through today via the X.Org Server on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other operating systems is now three decades old.
It was on this day in 1987 that Ralph Swick of MIT announced the X Window System Version 11 Release 1. As explained in the announcement compared to earlier versions of X, X11 offered "This release represents a major redesign and enhancement of X and signals it's graduation from the research community into the product engineering and development community. The X Window System version 11 is intended to be able to support virtually all known instances of raster display hardware and reasonable future hardware, including hardware supporting deep frame buffers, multiple colormaps and various levels of hardware graphics assist."
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X11-Turns-30
[As a point of reference, Intel introduced the 80386 in 1985 and the 80386SX variant in 1988. --Ed.]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @03:47AM (5 children)
From: rws@mit-bold (Robert W. Scheifler)
To: window@athena
Subject: window system X
Date: 19 Jun 1984 0907-EDT (Tuesday)
I've spent the last couple weeks writing a window
system for the VS100. I stole a fair amount of code
from W, surrounded it with an asynchronous rather
than a synchronous interface, and called it X. Overall
performance appears to be about twice that of W. The
code seems fairly solid at this point, although there are
still some deficiencies to be fixed up.
We at LCS have stopped using W, and are now
actively building applications on X. Anyone else using
W should seriously consider switching. This is not the
ultimate window system, but I believe it is a good
starting point for experimentation. Right at the moment
there is a CLU (and an Argus) interface to X; a C
interface is in the works. The three existing
applications are a text editor (TED), an Argus I/O
interface, and a primitive window manager. There is
no documentation yet; anyone crazy enough to
volunteer? I may get around to it eventually.
Anyone interested in seeing a demo can drop by
NE43-531, although you may want to call 3-1945
first. Anyone who wants the code can come by with a
tape. Anyone interested in hacking deficiencies, feel
free to get in touch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @06:16AM (4 children)
Yes, I'd imagine that X is older than X version 11, a.k.a. X11, which if you look very closely is the version both TFS and TFHeadline are about :/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:38AM (3 children)
Maybe that's why the subject says X?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @08:14AM (2 children)
Yes, yes it does. Which is the entire point. Of course X is older than X version 11. You really don't see a problem with the following conversation?
A: "Today's my 30th birthday!"
B: "Your parents are older."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 17 2017, @10:21AM (1 child)
"The 30th anniversary of Windows 2.0 is coming up!"
"Here's the original Windows announcement from 1983..."
(Score: 1, Troll) by Bot on Sunday September 17 2017, @08:26PM
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