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X.desktop was an early desktop environment graphical user interface built on the X Window System. [1]

17 relations: Acorn Computers, BiiN, Cambridge, Compaq, Desktop environment, Graphical user interface, IXI Limited, Locus Computing Corporation, Motif (software), Operating system, Software house, United Kingdom, Unix, USENIX, X Athena Widgets, X Window System, Xlib.

Acorn Computers

Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978.

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BiiN

BiiN was a company created out of a joint research project by Intel and Siemens to develop fault tolerant high-performance multi-processor computers build on custom microprocessor designs.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Compaq

Compaq (a portmanteau of Compatibility And Quality; occasionally referred to as CQ prior to its final logo) was a company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services.

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Desktop environment

In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system, which share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell.

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Graphical user interface

The graphical user interface (GUI), is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation, instead of text-based user interfaces, typed command labels or text navigation.

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IXI Limited

IXI Limited was a Cambridge, UK-based software company founded in 1988.

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Locus Computing Corporation

Locus Computing Corporation was formed in 1982 by Gerald J. Popek and Gregory I. Thiel to commercialize the technologies developed for the LOCUS distributed operating system at UCLA.

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Motif (software)

In computing, Motif refers to both a graphical user interface (GUI) specification and the widget toolkit for building applications that follow that specification under the X Window System on Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources and provides common services for computer programs.

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Software house

A software house is a company whose primary products are various forms of software, software technology, distribution, and software product development.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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USENIX

The USENIX Association is the Advanced Computing Systems Association.

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X Athena Widgets

X Athena Widgets or Xaw is a GUI widget library for the X Window System.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on UNIX-like computer operating systems.

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Xlib

Xlib (also known as libX11) is an X Window System protocol client library written in the C programming language.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.desktop

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