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XFree86 KUDOS X-windows has been around since the early UNIX days. XFree86 is the software which implements the x-windows system on UNIX systems. Originally a research project, X Windows has become the dominant mouse oriented windowing system for UNIX application packages. X Windows is a graphical user interface which allows the user to manipulate objects on the computer monitor using a mouse or mouse like input device. XFree86, a product of The XFree86 Project, Inc., has been in development for nine years. Originally developed to run on Intel x86 platform, their current release supports a variety of platforms, and The XFree86 Projects' goal "to have X run on every platform available, including those we do not currently support, as the best windowing system available on that platform." In the early 90s Thomas Roell wrote an X server for System V Release 3. David Dawes PhD student at the University of Sydney at the time, started working with the X source code in an attempt to make it work on the PC he was using. Around the same time Glenn Lai and Jim Tsillas were also working to improve the X server, along with a fourth David Wexelblat who in 1992 bought everyone together and coordinated the development effort. Today David Dawes works on XFree86 in his spare time. Credit for the initial porting of XFree86 to the MacOSX goes to John Carmack. Additional updates are credited to Dave Zarzycki, Torrey T. Lyons and the XonX team. Thanks everyone.
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