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  XWindows is 30 years old RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-19 19:46 +0000

#3766 — XWindows is 30 years old

From the «Hello, Miss Dirty Thirty» department:
Title: 30 years of X
Author:
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:59:03 -0400
Link: http://lwn.net/Articles/602876/rss

The X.Org Foundation reminds us[1] that the first announcement for the X
Window System came out on June 19, 1984. "The X developers have pushed the
boundaries and moved X from a system originally written to run on the CPU of
a VAX VS100 to one that runs the GUI on today's laptops with 3D rendering
capabilities. Indeed, X predates the concept of a Graphics Processing Unit
(GPU) as we currently know it, and even the company that popularized this
term in 1999, Nvidia." Congratulations to one of the oldest and most
successful free software projects out there.

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[1]: https://plus.google.com/102057777074369211973/posts/2M3jfkL2gNJ (link)

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