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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.windows.x Subject: Re: The COHERENT Operating System Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:19:59 +0000 Organization: Dis Lines: 30 Message-ID: <20240326101959.ed3d6112bd084a8625774243@127.0.0.1> References: <slrnv014ei.dne.bencollver@svadhyaya.localdomain> <X-20240325075426@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <utsq5g$14tqr$2@dont-email.me> <utsvac$ec4$1@panix2.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:20:00 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d37b4ebb83a81113284515f3248259cb"; logging-data="1847976"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194xw+Bg4KKx0ENNtY9Cwvd6w+6Je9tWog=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ndu7gaU+mgOvaCOMLiVvHPMtUJU= ;X-no-Archive: Maybe X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32) GNU: Terry Pratchett Bytes: 2370 On 25 Mar 2024 22:54:04 -0000 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: > In article <utsq5g$14tqr$2@dont-email.me>, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote: > >On 25 Mar 2024 06:54:48 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote in > ><X-20240325075426@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>: > > > >> Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted: > >>>COHERENT version 4 was released in May of 1992 for $100 (around $219 > >>>in 2024). This version made COHERENT a fully 32 bit operating system > >>>and required at least an Intel 80386 CPU and 1MB of RAM. This version > >>>also brought official support for X Windows and MGR to COHERENT for > >>>the first time. This version was roughly compatible with UNIX SVR3. > >> > >> BTW: Probably "X Window" (the X Window System) is meant above, > >> not "X Windows". > > > >BTDT: it was known as "X Windows", not "X Window". > > > >But officially, it was (and still is) "X" or "The X Window System". > > > >(I've been seeing a lot of folks refer to it as "X Window" > >on Usenet lately -- you kids get off my lawn!) > > I thought it was the windows system known as X? A simple name change, why are you all a-twitter? -- Bah, and indeed Humbug.