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  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://www.x.org/)" rel="nofollow">Home (http://www.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)
       
       

  X Window system /ˈɛks wˈɪndəʊ sˈɪstəm/
   [it] okenní systém X (síťově orientované GUI pro platformu unixe-like os)