Re: Is there any reason to use X11 0.3?
Re: Is there any reason to use X11 0.3?
- Subject: Re: Is there any reason to use X11 0.3?
- From: Eugene Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:07:57 -0600
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 10:22:06AM +1200, Jonathan Mckeown wrote:
:
: On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 10:34 PM, Eugene Lee wrote:
: >
: >Most of us, in the day, never called it "X11". We said "X Window
: >System" sometimes, "X Windows" more often (before Windoze 3.x
: >existed), and other times just "X". That's just my experience.
:
: X has long been referred to as X11 ever since version 11 (surprisingly
: enough).
Someday (maybe), I wonder if they will move to X12...
: Referring to it as 'X Windows' is quite common, but it isn't
: correct. It's either 'X', 'X11' (as long as you're referring to version
: 11), or 'The X Window System'.
"X Windows" used to be fine, until the X Consortium decided that they
didn't want to risk branding confusion with "M$ Windoze". But this was
a long time ago too.
--
Eugene Lee
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