The Ages of X History

• Prehistory - 1983, W, and all that

• Ancient times - 1984-1986, X1-X10

• Grecian Times - 1987-1988, X11

• Roman Empire -1988-1992, GUI wars

  • Founding of the X Consortium, benign dictatorship, central control and taxation, was great (if you were a citizen)
  • Provinces - The UNIX vendors

• Dark Ages - 1993-1996

  • Fall of the Roman Empire, interregnum

• Renaissance - 1996 -2000

  • Where we are now - Linux & *BSD drive development
  • New toolkits, desktop environments, applications (at long last!)

• Modern times