<spelling> A common misnomer for the X Window System. (1997-06-10)

X window System version 11 (Reference: X-Windows)

Version 11 release 4 of the X protocol. See {X Window System}.

Version 11 release 5 of the X protocol. Released in June 1994. See X Window System.

<operating system> Version 11 release 6 of the {X Window System}. [Release date?] (1995-01-20)

A vendor consortium supporting development, evolution and maintenance of the X Window System. The X Consortium is an independent, not-for-profit company. It was formed in 1993 as the successor to the MIT X Consortium, a research group of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. ftp://ftp.x.org. http://x.org/. [Members?]

<operating system, graphics> A specification for device-independent windowing operations on bitmap display devices, developed initially by MIT's Project Athena and now a de facto standard supported by the X Consortium. X was named after an earlier window system called "W". It is a window system called "X", not a system called "X Windows". X uses a client-server protocol, the X protocol. The server is the computer or X terminal with the screen, keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are application programs. Clients may run on the same computer as the server or on a different computer, communicating over Ethernet via TCP/IP protocols. This is confusing because X clients often run on what people usually think of as their server (e.g. a file server) but in X, it is the screen and keyboard etc. which is being "served out" to the applications. X is used on many Unix systems. It has also been described as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly over-complicated. X11R6 (version 11, release 6) was released in May 1994. http://x.org/. See also Andrew project, PEX, VNC, XFree86. Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.windows.x, news:comp.x, news:comp.windows.x.apps, news:comp.windows.x.intrinsics, news:comp.windows.x.announce, news:comp.sources.x, news:comp.windows.x.motif, news:comp.windows.x.pex. (1999-04-02)

<operating system> The first incarnation of {Microsoft Windows}, released in 1985. It took a total of 55 programmer-years to develop, and only allowed tiled windows. (1996-07-08)

Nashville (previously Cleveland)Comes v. Microsoft 3208 was the codename for a cancelled release of Microsoft Windows scheduled to be released in 1996,Comes v.

<operating system> A complete rework of Microsoft Windows with many new facilities such as the ability to address memory beyond 640k. It was released in 1990, and vigorous development of applications by third parties helped Microsoft sell over 10 million copies. (1996-07-08)