[TUHS] "X Window System At 40"
Alexis
flexibeast at gmail.com
Wed Jul 3 21:07:41 AEST 2024
David Rosenthal reflects on his involvement with the development
of the X Window System:
> Although most of my time was spent developing NeWS, I rapidly
> ported X version 10 to the Sun/1, likely the second port to
> non-DEC hardware. It worked, but I had to kludge several areas
> that depended on DEC-specific hardware. The worst was the
> completely DEC-specific keyboard support.
>
> Because it was clear that a major redesign of X was needed to
> make it portable and in particular to make it work well on Sun
> hardware, Gosling and I worked with the teams at DEC SRC and WRL
> on the design of X version 11. Gosling provided significant
> input on the imaging model, and I designed the keyboard
> support. As the implementation evolved I maintained the Sun port
> and did a lot of testing and bug fixing. All of which led to my
> trip to Boston to pull all-nighters at MIT finalizing the
> release.
>
> My involvement continued after the first release. I was the
> editor and main author of the X Inter-Client Communications
> Conventions Manual (ICCCM) that forms Part III of Robert
> Scheifler and Jim Gettys' X Window System.
-- https://blog.dshr.org/2024/07/x-window-system-at-40.html
Alexis.
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