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.
^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.
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