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1.1     ! root        1: Title:         The X Window System
        !             2: 
        !             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: Mailing lists: [email protected] (to be added or deleted)
        !            19:                [email protected] (to be added or deleted)
        !            20:                xpert                   (Xpert discussion)
        !            21:                xport                   (porting discussions)
        !            22: 
        !            23: Other major contributors include Tony Della Fera, Mark Vandevoorde,
        !            24: Ron Newman (Project Athena), Paul Johnson, Paul Asente (Stanford U.),
        !            25: Doug Mink (SAO), Shane Hartman, Stuart Malone, (MIT-LCS), and Chris
        !            26: Kent (Purdue).  The Sun implementation is thanks to Dave Rosenthal of
        !            27: Sun Microsystems and various Berkeley people who have fixed many
        !            28: shortcomings.  The current version of xterm has more feature than one
        !            29: can imagine courtesy of Ed Moy of Berkeley.  The Apollo implementation
        !            30: is due to Mark Swanson of the University of Utah and Doug Orr.  The
        !            31: IBM RT/PC implementation is courtesy of Scott Bates (Brown University)
        !            32: and Mike Braca (formerly Brown University, now TMI).  The Integrated
        !            33: Solutions implementation is courtesy of Integrated Solutions inc.
        !            34: Great thanks must be given to Digital's Unix Engineering Group for the
        !            35: QDSS implementation, and to Digital's Workstations group for the QVSS
        !            36: implementation.  There are almost certainly oversights on the list
        !            37: above; my apologies to them.
        !            38: 
        !            39: 
        !            40: Description:
        !            41: 
        !            42: X is a network transparent window system for bitmap displays that
        !            43: currently runs on most workstation displays.  These include the DEC
        !            44: VS100, VS1, VS2, VS2-GPX, and most Sun Microsystems displays, (not yet
        !            45: finished).  The implementations here are for the Digital Vs100,
        !            46: Apollo, RT/PC, Integrated Solutions, and Sun displays.  It should be
        !            47: possible to port X to many different display architectures.  No
        !            48: presumption is made in X that it can touch the bits on the screen
        !            49: directly, for example.
        !            50: 
        !            51: The directory tree here includes all of the device independent X client
        !            52: programs and the device dependent server for the DEC Vs100 developed at
        !            53: MIT.  Contributions of other software are gratefully acknowledged.  This
        !            54: has been a community effort for quite a while now, and the continuation
        !            55: of this tradition would be helpful to all.  Most of the client code has
        !            56: now been ported to several other non-Vax architectures and should be
        !            57: reasonably easily portable across 4.2BSD based systems.
        !            58: 
        !            59: X supports overlapping windows, fully recursive subwindows, and
        !            60: provides hooks for several different styles of user interface.
        !            61: Applications provided include a terminal emulator (~Vt102 and Tek 4010),
        !            62: bitmap editor, several window managers, access control program,
        !            63: clock, window dump and undump programs, hardcopy printing program for
        !            64: the LN03 printer, and several typesetting previewers.
        !            65: 
        !            66: If you don't like our window manager(s), go write your own....  Don't
        !            67: bother us unless you CAN'T write it with the tools provided.
        !            68: 
        !            69: See the document in "doc/installation" for installation directions.
        !            70: 
        !            71: See the document in "doc/ddX.doc" for specification of the device dependent
        !            72: library.
        !            73: 
        !            74: Inquiries about X should go to the "Xrequest" address above.
        !            75: Please send bug reports to the "Xbugs" address above.
        !            76: 
        !            77: From here on out, the cat is out of the bag.  Have fun.  Read the
        !            78: README file in X/X before you do anything.
        !            79: 
        !            80: We are most interested in talking to people actively porting this window
        !            81: system to other hardware.
        !            82: 
        !            83:                                Bob Scheifler
        !            84:                                Jim Gettys
        !            85: 
        !            86: Copyright 1984, 1985, 1986 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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