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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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