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1984 – Jim Gettys and Bob Scheifler announced collaboration of a new operating system in the X Window System. This gives the basic framework for a GUI. Currently, it is refered to as X11, R7.7.

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 synchronous interface, and called it X. Overall

performance appears to be about twice that of W. The

code seems fairly solid at this point, although there are

still some deficiencies to be fixed up.

We at LCS have stopped using W, and are now

actively building applications on X. Anyone else using

W should seriously consider switching. This is not the

ultimate window system, but I believe it is a good

starting point for experimentation. Right at the moment

there is a CLU (and an Argus) interface to X; a C

interface is in the works. The three existing

applications are a text editor (TED), an Argus I/O

interface, and a primitive window manager. There is

no documentation yet; anyone crazy enough to

volunteer? I may get around to it eventually.

Anyone interested in seeing a demo can drop by

NE43-531, although you may want to call 3-1945

first. Anyone who wants the code can come by with a

tape. Anyone interested in hacking deficiencies, feel

free to get in touch.

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