On 11/10/2010 09:34 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote:
It's baffling to me that anyone is still using X Window (no 's', by the way) in 2010.
I agree. X is 25 years old, if I'm not wrong.
PS I've always said "X WindowS" and it's actually not correct, ad Cedric pointed out. But things are a bit more complex (from Wikipedia):
People in the computer trade commonly shorten the phrase "X Window System" to "X Window", "X11" (for version 11, used since 1987) or simply to "X".^[42] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#cite_note-41> The term "X-Windows" (in the manner of "Microsoft Windows") is not officially endorsed, though it has been in common use since early in the history of X and has been used deliberately for provocative effect, for example in the /UNIX-HATERS Handbook <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX-HATERS_Handbook>/.^[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#cite_note-The_X-Windows_Disaster-3>
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