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Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image?
Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image?
Posted Jul 2, 2006 7:30 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image? by dwheeler
Parent article: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part I)
There's no such thing as X-Windows. There's X (full name: The X Window System) and there's Windows (Microsoft).
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Why not have X-Windows store the COMPRESSED image?
Posted Jul 5, 2006 1:52 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Great. You're pedantically correct.
However, knowing this, we non-pedantic long-time Unix users still call it X Windows all the time, along with other names.