The X Windowing System turns 40 today
Today just so happens to be the 40th birthday of X, the venerable windowing system that's on its way out, at least in the Linux world. From the original announcement by Robert W. Scheifler:
I've spent the last couple weeks writing a window system for the VS100. I stole a fair amount of code from W, surrounded it with an asynchronous rather than a synchronou
https://www.osnews.com/story/140008/the-x-windowing-system-turns-40-today/
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