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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by vondur on Sunday July 07, 2019 @08:12PM (#20378903)
I wonder why the SGI stuff for X was not open sourced?
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Re:The death watch for the X Window System has probably started by p_l on Sunday July 07, 2019 @09:39PM (#20379287)
very tightly integrated with Irix and SGI MIPS hardware, from my understanding.

A bit like IRIS GL never getting open sourced, because it wouldn't be of much use without matching hardware exposed over /dev/GL interface.

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