Retro Bytes video - History of X11

[Singletona]

The History of X11

[EdS]

Nice find! In support of the perspective of the end of X, I’ve previously found this:
The death watch for the X Window System (aka X11) has probably started

Also to note these previous related threads

The MGR Window System (from mid 80s)

Lighter on memory, preferred on Sun 3 by many, compared to X Windows. Ported to PC, Atari ST, Macintosh. Here are historical notes and even sources: The MGR Window System [image] MGR, sometimes said to be short for “ManaGeR”, sometimes short for “Munger”, is a simple network transparent window system. It was originally developed for the Sun 3 series of workstations by Stephen Uhler and colleagues beginning in 1984 while at Bellcore Many people at Lysator prefered MGR instead of using Sun’…

VAXstation 100 emulator + older X versions found?

The VAXstation 100 is notable for kicking off the X Window System in 1984. MIT’s CLU/Argus group had acquired some VS100 units and needed a windowing system. They found Stanford’s W window system and updated it to become X. Project Athena quickly adopted X, followed by DEC and workstation vendors, and the rest is Unix history. (Side note: xterm was started at Project Athena before X, and was initially used to manage several VS100. It was updated to be a regular X application later.) I wrot…

Sep 1987: "X Version 11 Released (!)"

[image] Ralph R. Swick posted on usenet to announce the first version of what we now know as X11, or just X (as version 11 seems to be the final cut): The X Window System, Version 11 Release 1 is now available. This release represents a major redesign and enhancement of X and signals it’s graduation from the research community into the product engineering and development community. The X Window System version 11 is intended to be able to support virtually all known instances of raster displa…