Dan Ports on Nostr: 40 years ago today, the X window system was released. Fun fact: the initial interface ...
40 years ago today, the X window system was released.
Fun fact: the initial interface was only available in CLU, not C -- because the window system was originally built as part of a project to make a graphical debugger for Liskov's Argus distributed programming language.
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https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml)
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