Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v3.13, by Herong Yang
X Window Terminals
This section provides a quick introduction of X Terminals, computers without hard disks, running X server to provide GUI for X applications.
Because X Window System uses a client-server model with a network protocol, X server and X client applications can run on remotely connected computers.
Based on this design, special computers, called X Terminals, were developed to run X server only with no hard disks. X Terminals will boot over network, run X server, and become the graphical user interface (GUI) for any X client applications running on remote computers.
The picture below shows an X Terminal communicates with remote X client applications (Source: www.wikipedia.org).
Table of Contents
2002 - .NET Framework Developed by Microsoft
1995 - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
1995 - Java Language Developed by Sun Microsystems
1991 - WWW (World Wide Web) Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
1991 - Gopher Protocol Created by a University of Minnesota Team
►1984 - X Window System Developed a MIT Team
XFree86 - Open Source Implementation of X
1984 - Macintosh Developed by Apple Inc.
1983 - "Sendmail" Mail Transfer Agent Developed by Eric Allman
1979 - The Tcsh (TENEX C Shell) Developed by Ken Greer
1978 - Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) Developed by Brian Fox
1978 - The C Shell Developed by Bill Joy
1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne
1977 - Apple II Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - vi Text Editor Developed by Bill Joy
1974 - Internet by Vinton Cerf
1972 - C Language Developed by Dennis Ritchie
1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan
1970 - UNIX Operating System Developed by AT&T Bell Labs