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1.1     ! root        1: Title:         The X Window System
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        !             3: Authors:       Bob Scheifler
        !             4:                MIT / Laboratory for Computer Science
        !             5:                531 Tech Sq,
        !             6:                Cambridge, Mass. 02139
        !             7: 
        !             8:                Jim Gettys
        !             9:                MIT / Project Athena
        !            10:                E40-342C
        !            11:                Cambridge, Mass. 02139
        !            12: 
        !            13: Net addresses: [email protected]        ([email protected])
        !            14:                [email protected]       ([email protected])
        !            15:                [email protected]    ([email protected])
        !            16:                [email protected] ([email protected])
        !            17: 
        !            18: Other major contributors include Tony Della Fera, Mark Vandevoorde, Ron
        !            19: Newman (Project Athena), Paul Johnson, Paul Asente (Stanford U.), Doug
        !            20: Mink (SAO), Shane Hartman, Stuart Malone, (MIT-LCS), and Chris Kent
        !            21: (Purdue).  The Sun implementation is thanks to Dave Rosenthal of Sun
        !            22: Microsystems. Great thanks must be given to Digital's Unix Engineering Group
        !            23: for the QDSS implementation, and to Digital's Workstations group for the
        !            24: QVSS implementation.
        !            25: 
        !            26: 
        !            27: Description:
        !            28: 
        !            29: X is a network transparent window system for bitmap displays that
        !            30: currently runs on 6 different types of displays.  These include the DEC
        !            31: VS100, VS1, VS2, VS2-GPX, the Lexidata 90, and most Sun Microsystems
        !            32: displays, (not yet finished).  The implementations for the IBM RT/PC
        !            33: displays (ACIS experimental display, APA8, APA16 did not quite make this
        !            34: release. Other manufacturers are in the works.  The implementations here
        !            35: are for the Digital Vs100, and Sun displays.  It should be possible
        !            36: to port X to many different display architectures.  No presumption is
        !            37: made in X that it can touch the bits on the screen directly, for
        !            38: example.
        !            39: 
        !            40: The directory tree here includes all of the device independent X client
        !            41: programs and the device dependent server for the DEC Vs100 developed at
        !            42: MIT.  Contributions of other software are gratefully acknowledged.  This
        !            43: has been a community effort for quite a while now, and the continuation
        !            44: of this tradition would be helpful to all.  Most of the client code has
        !            45: now been ported to several other non-Vax architectures and should be
        !            46: reasonably easily portable across 4.2BSD based systems.
        !            47: 
        !            48: X supports overlapping windows, fully recursive subwindows, and
        !            49: provides hooks for several different styles of user interface.
        !            50: Applications provided include a terminal emulator (~Vt102 and Tek 4010),
        !            51: bitmap editor, several window managers, access control program,
        !            52: clock, window dump and undump programs, hardcopy printing program for
        !            53: the LN03 printer, and several typesetting previewers.
        !            54: 
        !            55: If you don't like our window manager(s), go write your own....  Don't
        !            56: bother us unless you CAN'T write it with the tools provided.
        !            57: 
        !            58: See the document in "doc/installation" for installation directions.
        !            59: 
        !            60: See the document in "doc/ddX.doc" for specification of the device dependent
        !            61: library.
        !            62: 
        !            63: Inquiries about X should go to the "Xrequest" address above.
        !            64: Please send bug reports to the "Xbugs" address above.
        !            65: 
        !            66: From here on out, the cat is out of the bag.  Have fun.  Read the
        !            67: README file in X/X before you do anything.
        !            68: 
        !            69: We are most interested in talking to people actively porting this window
        !            70: system to other hardware.
        !            71: 
        !            72:                                Bob Scheifler
        !            73:                                Jim Gettys
        !            74: 
        !            75: Copyright 1984, 1985, 1986 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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