X Window System - Revision history

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Not extensive, but covers the basics, and a home for links

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The '''X Window System''' is the now-dominant [[window system]] used by [[application]]s which wish to perform output to a [[window]] (either in the form of text, [[graphics]], or images). Unlike earlier window systems, which were part of an [[operating system]], or interacted though [[subroutine call]]s, X is based on a [[protocol]] which runs over a [[reliable byte stream]]. An X session can be run over any [[data network]] which provides such streams. (Currently [[TCP/IP]] [[internetwork|internets]] are used, but in the past the [[Chaosnet|CHAOS protocol]] was also used.) The streams connect the application to an X [[server]] which has direct access to the [[display]] being used.

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==External links==

* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/22949.24053 The X Window System], Robert W. Scheifler, Jim Gettys (ACM Transactions on Graphics 5 (2), April 1986)
* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/lcs/tr/MIT-LCS-TR-368.pdf The X Window System], Robert W. Scheifler, Jim Gettys (TR-368,MIT-LCS)

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 * [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/22949.24053 The X Window System], Robert W. Scheifler, Jim Gettys (ACM Transactions on Graphics 5 (2), April 1986)
-* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/lcs/tr/MIT-LCS-TR-368.pdf The X Window System], Robert W. Scheifler, Jim Gettys (TR-368,MIT-LCS)
+* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/lcs/tr/MIT-LCS-TR-0368.pdf The X Window System], Robert W. Scheifler, Jim Gettys (TR-368,MIT-LCS)
 * [https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/absolutely-not-a-vaxstation100-emulator/issues/1 X version history, prehistory]
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 Unlike earlier window systems, which were part of an [[operating system]], or interacted though [[subroutine call]]s, X is based on a [[protocol]] which runs over a [[reliable byte stream]]. An X session can be run over any [[data network]] which provides such streams. (Currently [[TCP/IP]] [[internetwork|internets]] are used, but in the past the [[Chaosnet|CHAOS protocol]] was also used.) The streams connect the application to an X [[server]] which has direct access to the [[display]] being used.
-X is based on the [[W window system]] (which was used initially for a window system in the [[CLU]] project)), but Bob Scheifler largely re-wrote it to become X.
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−	The '''X Window System''' (sometimes called '''X11''' or just '''X''') is the now-dominant [[window system]] used by [[application]]s which wish to perform output to a [[window]] (either in the form of text, [[graphics]], or images). Unlike earlier window systems, which were part of an [[operating system]], or interacted though [[subroutine call]]s, X is based on a [[protocol]] which runs over a [[reliable byte stream]]. An X session can be run over any [[data network]] which provides such streams. (Currently [[TCP/IP]] [[internetwork\|internets]] are used, but in the past the [[Chaosnet\|CHAOS protocol]] was also used.) The streams connect the application to an X [[server]] which has direct access to the [[display]] being used.	+	The '''X Window System''' (sometimes called '''X11''' or just '''X''') is the now-dominant [[window system]] used by [[application]]s which wish to perform output to a [[window]] (either in the form of text, [[graphics]], or images).
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		+	Unlike earlier window systems, which were part of an [[operating system]], or interacted though [[subroutine call]]s, X is based on a [[protocol]] which runs over a [[reliable byte stream]]. An X session can be run over any [[data network]] which provides such streams. (Currently [[TCP/IP]] [[internetwork\|internets]] are used, but in the past the [[Chaosnet\|CHAOS protocol]] was also used.) The streams connect the application to an X [[server]] which has direct access to the [[display]] being used.
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		+	X is based on the [[W window system]] (which was used initially for a window system in the [[CLU]] project)), but Bob Scheifler largely re-wrote it to become X.

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−	The '''X Window System''' is the now-dominant [[window system]] used by [[application]]s which wish to perform output to a [[window]] (either in the form of text, [[graphics]], or images). Unlike earlier window systems, which were part of an [[operating system]], or interacted though [[subroutine call]]s, X is based on a [[protocol]] which runs over a [[reliable byte stream]]. An X session can be run over any [[data network]] which provides such streams. (Currently [[TCP/IP]] [[internetwork\|internets]] are used, but in the past the [[Chaosnet\|CHAOS protocol]] was also used.) The streams connect the application to an X [[server]] which has direct access to the [[display]] being used.	+	The '''X Window System''' (sometimes called '''X11''' or just '''X''') is the now-dominant [[window system]] used by [[application]]s which wish to perform output to a [[window]] (either in the form of text, [[graphics]], or images). Unlike earlier window systems, which were part of an [[operating system]], or interacted though [[subroutine call]]s, X is based on a [[protocol]] which runs over a [[reliable byte stream]]. An X session can be run over any [[data network]] which provides such streams. (Currently [[TCP/IP]] [[internetwork\|internets]] are used, but in the past the [[Chaosnet\|CHAOS protocol]] was also used.) The streams connect the application to an X [[server]] which has direct access to the [[display]] being used.

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 * [https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/absolutely-not-a-vaxstation100-emulator/issues/1 X version history, prehistory]
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