The X.Org Foundation reminds us that the first announcement for the X Window System came out on June 19, 1984. “The X developers have pushed the boundaries and moved X from a system originally written to run on the CPU of a VAX VS100 to one that runs the GUI on today’s laptops with 3D rendering capabilities. Indeed, X predates the concept of a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) as we currently know it, and even the company that popularized this term in 1999, Nvidia.” Congratulations to one of the oldest and most successful free software projects out there.
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