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   UW Computer Science and Engineering Introduction to the X
Window System  Summary: UW Computer Science and Engineering
Introduction to the X Window System original September 1992,
revised September 1998 - Warren Jessop (whj@cs) Chapter 1:
Getting Started 1 1 Getting Started 1.1 Window System, Display,
Server, and Client Network-transparency means you can use a
graphics workstation to interact with X appli- cation programs
that run either locally on that workstation or on other
computers attached to the network. Window system means X allows
you to build and use programs that follow a "desktop metaphor"
pioneered by Xerox in the 70's, made popular by the Apple
Macintosh in the 80's, and dominated by Microsoft Windows in the
90's. Features of that metaphor include displaying and being
able to manipulate multiple overlapping (usually rectangular)
windows, each of which performs some func