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window system
(foldoc) | window system
windowing
windowing system
Software which allows a computer's
display to be divided into rectangular areas which act like a
separate input/output devices under the control of different
application programs. This gives the user the ability to see
the output of several processes at once and to choose which one
will receive input by selecting its window, usually by pointing at
it with a mouse.
Examples are the X Window System, proprietary systems on the
Macintosh and NeXT, NeWS on Suns, RISC OS on the
Archimedes and Microsoft Windows. See also WIMP.
(2015-03-07)
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x window system
(encz) | X Window system,okenní systém X n: [it.] síťově orientované GUI pro
platformu unixe-like os mamm |
network extensible window system
(foldoc) | Network extensible Window System
(NeWS) An elegant PostScript-based windowing environment,
invented by James Gosling, the author of GOSMACS.
NeWS would almost certainly have won the standards war with
the X Window System if it hadn't been proprietary to {Sun
Microsystems}. There is a lesson here that too many software
vendors haven't yet heeded. Communication is based on
PostScript and server functions can be extended.
See also HyperNeWS, OpenWindows.
(1994-12-12)
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x window system
(foldoc) | X Window System
A specification for
device-independent windowing operations on bitmap display
devices, developed initially by MIT's Project Athena and
now a de facto standard supported by the X Consortium. X
was named after an earlier window system called "W". It is a
window system called "X", not a system called "X Windows".
X uses a client-server protocol, the X protocol. The
server is the computer or X terminal with the screen,
keyboard, mouse and server program and the clients are
application programs. Clients may run on the same computer
as the server or on a different computer, communicating over
Ethernet via TCP/IP protocols. This is confusing because
X clients often run on what people usually think of as their
server (e.g. a file server) but in X, it is the screen and
keyboard etc. which is being "served out" to the applications.
X is used on many Unix systems. It has also been described
as over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered and incredibly
over-complicated. X11R6 (version 11, release 6) was released
in May 1994.
(http://x.org/).
See also Andrew project, PEX, VNC, XFree86.
Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.windows.x, news:comp.x,
news:comp.windows.x.apps, news:comp.windows.x.intrinsics,
news:comp.windows.x.announce, news:comp.sources.x,
news:comp.windows.x.motif, news:comp.windows.x.pex.
(1999-04-02)
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