• X Version 11 Released (!!!)

    From beleka6565x@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 16 17:18:42 2017
    Thanks.
    Works great

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  • From srdjan.zdravkovic7@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 3 18:36:10 2019
    Op dinsdag 15 september 1987 18:26:15 UTC+2 schreef Ralph R. Swick:
    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 display hardware and reasonable future hardware, including hardware supporting
    deep frame buffers, multiple colormaps and various levels of hardware graphics assist.

    Whereas the design and implementation of the first 10 versions of X
    were primarily the work of three individuals, Robert Scheifler of the
    M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science and Jim Gettys of Digital
    Equipment Corporation and Ron Newman of M.I.T., both working at M.I.T. Project Athena, X version 11 is the result of the efforts of literally
    dozens of individuals at almost as many locations and organizations.
    At the risk of offending some of the players by exclusion, several
    people deserve special credit and recognition. First, Phil Karlton
    and Scott McGregor, both of DEC, for their considerable contributions
    to the specification of the version 11 protocol. Dave Rosenthal of
    Sun Microsystems also contributed to the protocol and provided the
    sample generic color frame buffer ddx code. Sue Angebranndt, Raymond
    Drewry and Todd Newman of DEC's Western Software Laboratory, with
    Phil, have worked long and hard to produce the sample server
    implementation. Our very deepest gratitude to Todd Brunhoff who
    convinced his management at Tektronix to spare him for 6 months to be
    at Project Athena. Todd's system knowledge, his bag of tricks and never-fading smile were essential in keeping the beta test alive. Bob Scheifler remains the author, the final arbiter and the final decision
    maker for the X Protocol itself, a job that has consumed significantly
    more time with the expansion of the design community. Jim Gettys has
    allowed his arm to be twisted to continue to be the principal
    architect, arbiter and implementor of Xlib long after he wanted to
    move on to other tasks.

    Many thanks to all the beta test sites who persevered and helped us to achieve this milestone. Our enormous gratitude to Dave Rosenthal,
    Erik Fortune, Raymond Drewry, Dave Gorgen and Al Mento who with us
    spent many late nights during the past week merging sources, testing
    builds and revising documentation.

    The full list of contributors who made this release possible is very long.
    In order to avoid filling mail queue, the complete list is in the file X11/doc/contributors. It is recommended reading.

    This release is unique and perhaps historic in the computer industry
    in that very nearly all of the code has been contributed by the
    workstation vendors themselves. This release will run on the Digital
    VS-2, VS-2/RC, VS-2/GPX and VS-2000 under Ultrix 2.0, and 4.3BSD, most
    Sun Microsystems workstations with bw2 and cg2/3/4/5 displays under
    3.2, 3.4 and 4.0, Apollo Computer workstations under SR9.5/6/7, and
    the IBM RT/PC with AED and APA16 under ACIS 4.3 (Not under AIX). MIT
    does not "support" this distribution; however bugs and fixes and new
    code are gratefully accepted.

    To order a distribution, send a CHECK for U.S. $150 to:

    MIT Microcomputer Center
    MIT 11-209
    77 Massachusetts Avenue
    Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139
    (617) 253-6325

    Purchase orders will NOT be accepted. The distribution will come on a
    single 9 track 1600BPI tape written in Unix tar(1) format, along with
    a single copy of printed documentation. Other distribution media or
    formats are NOT available. Express mail shipment will be available
    at a surcharge; you should call the number above if you desire this.

    Distributions are also available from "zap.mit.edu" (18.72.0.126) (for east-coasters) and decwrl.dec.com (26.7.0.16) (for west-coasters) on
    the Internet, via anonymous FTP. The east-coast distribution will be
    moving soon from 'zap.mit.edu' to 'athena-dist.mit.edu', so if zap is unavailable you should try there.

    Bug reports should be mailed to xbugs@athena.mit.edu. It would be appreciated if you used the template in doc/bugs/bug-report.

    As always, in the spirit under which X was developed and is
    distributed, you are encouraged to write your own tools and share them
    if you think these clients are deficient.


    Enjoy!
    15-Sep-87
    Bob Scheifler
    Jim Gettys
    Ralph R. Swick
    Todd Brunhoff
    MIT Project Athena

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to srdjan.zdravkovic7@gmail.com on Mon Feb 4 19:52:59 2019
    In comp.windows.x, <srdjan.zdravkovic7@gmail.com> wrote:
    Op dinsdag 15 september 1987 18:26:15 UTC+2 schreef Ralph R. Swick:
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    So long ago...

    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 display
    hardware and reasonable future hardware, including hardware supporting
    deep frame buffers, multiple colormaps and various levels of hardware
    graphics assist.

    X11 has been able to support quite a range of hardware and scenarios,
    although X11R1 itself didn't have everything needed for today.

    Distributions are also available from "zap.mit.edu" (18.72.0.126) (for
    east-coasters) and decwrl.dec.com (26.7.0.16) (for west-coasters) on
    the Internet, via anonymous FTP. The east-coast distribution will be
    moving soon from 'zap.mit.edu' to 'athena-dist.mit.edu', so if zap is
    unavailable you should try there.

    decwrl.dec.com is no more, but zap.mit.edu is (might be) still around.
    DNS queries work and show it at a different IP address now. I was not
    able to connect via http / https / ftp however. FTP to athena-dist.mit.edu
    also timed out.

    Elijah
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    didn't try the full set on athena-dist.mit.edu

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