W Window System

Discontinued windowing system

W Window System

Original author(s)| Paul Asente, Brian Reid
Developer(s)| Stanford University
Operating system| V operating system
Successor| X Window System
Type| Windowing system

The W Window System, or simply W, is a discontinued windowing system and precursor, in name and concept, to the modern X Window System.

W was originally developed at Stanford University by Paul Asente and Brian Reid for the V operating system. In 1983, Paul Asente and Chris Kent ported the system to UNIX on the VS100, giving a copy to those working at MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science.[1]

In 1984, Bob Scheifler of MIT replaced the synchronous protocol of W with an asynchronous alternative and named the result X.[2]

Since this time, the X window system has gone through many fundamental changes and no longer bears any significant resemblance to W.

## See also

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* Free Software portal

* History of free and open-source software

## References

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1. ^ Scheifler, Robert W.; Gettys, Jim (April 1986). "The X window system". ACM Transactions on Graphics. 5 (2): 79–109\. doi:10.1145/22949.24053. ISSN 0730-0301. S2CID 18458549.
2. ^ "Talisman: Debut of X". www.talisman.org. Retrieved 2022-05-30.

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