[Am-info] Re: MS Depositions

[Hans Reiser]

Sujal Shah wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 18:07, Hans Reiser wrote:
>[SNIP]
>
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>>sorry, but X windows was first, it is much older than 1986....
>>
>
>Sorry to be pedantic, but can you point out a citation (book, web page,
>etc.)?  I looked pretty hard for a good 20 minutes (admittedly, not
>exhaustive research) and only came up with the references I cited.  In
>addition, one of those references was the X consortium itself (!), so
>I'm not sure who else would know better.
>
>I'm not sure I care which came first, as Windows 1.0 did very little
>compared to what the X protocol did and does (even today).  In the end,
>I think X users got some essential things that are still missing in
>Windows and Mac OS, and Mac guys came up with something better than that
>which existed in the X world (some of which still doesn't exist in
>mainstream X servers).
>
>Sujal
>
>
>>Hans
>>
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I just personally remember using X windows at Berkeley back in the days 
of DOS.  Sun had a window manager that came before Xwindows, Mac was 
graphical before Sun, and Xerox Star was graphical before even them.

Hans