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