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The MGR Window System
 - https://hack.org/mc/mgr/

"MGR, sometimes said to be short for "ManaGeR", sometimes short for 
 "Munger", is a simple network transparent window system. It was 
 originally developed for the Sun 3 series of workstations by 
 Stephen Uhler and colleagues beginning in 1984 while at Bellcore 
 (later Telcordia, now part of Ericsson) and later enhanced by many 
 others.
 
 The window system ran on many different hardware platforms, at 
 least these: Sun 3/xx workstations running SunOS, which was the the 
 original development platform, Sun SPARCstations (SunOS and then 
 ported by me to Solaris), Intel x86 based PCs (Coherent, Minix, 
 FreeBSD or Linux), Atari ST (under MiNT), AT&T UnixPC (SysV) and 
 the Macintosh.
 
 The entire MGR source code was posted to Usenet in 1989, 
 comp.sources.unix Volume 17, Issue 1. A lot of people picked it up.
 
 Personally I first got acquainted with MGR while using Sun 3/50 and 
 3/60 workstations at the Lysator Academic Computing Society at 
 Link?ping University in 1991.
 
 Many people at Lysator prefered MGR instead of using Sun's own 
 SunView (nee SunTools) and, later, many still preferred MGR instead 
 of running the X Window System. X, even on the high-end 3/80 
 workstations we later had, was not a pleasant experience, probably 
 mostly because of memory starvation. It wasn't until we had SPARC 
 CPUs that most users started abandoning MGR." ...

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