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The X Window System

Created on Oct 14, 2006, 16:37 by Rui Carmo, not updated since.

Before X.org came along:

The last wide-spread functional enhancement exported by the X server might well be the Shape extension, designed (in the hot tub) at the 1989 Winter Usenix in San Diego. (quoted from here)

X Servers:

WeirdX - written in Java, of all things

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