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From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
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Subject: Re: The COHERENT Operating System
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:19:59 +0000
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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?

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