For anyone just reading the title: It's about physical thin-client X11 server machines, not xterm.
beej71•1h ago
The good old days. We had a bunch of X terminals hooked up with thin net to some HP735 servers in college.
HenryBemis•23m ago
In those good old days my Uni was giving away those bulky Unix "manuals" (after every major upgrade they were refreshing the documentation/dossiers) and they would leave on a table a few dozens of the 'outdated' ones. Everyone would grab one and it was a first-come-first-served, and you could end up in a 'useless' dossier, but still they were amazing reads.
HenryBemis•27m ago
The title made me think: the Tesla 'copilot' didn't immediately have a "copilot".
TMWNN•10m ago
I presume that X terminals did not appear at the same time as X Window because Project Athena <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena>, which created X, had its users use "real" workstations from the start, the IBM RT PC being the first. I don't know if MIT ever deployed any X terminals but, as I understand it, one of the tenets of Athena is that every workstation is a full-fledged remote login-capable node of the Athena cluster.
ch_123•4m ago
X originally was created on/ran on a graphics terminal - the DEC VAXstation 100. The VS100 was quite different to the later X thin client terminals: it required an adapter card to be installed in a host system, and the software which ran on the VS100 could directly access a chunk of shared memory on the host.
Ports to workstations with inbuilt graphics hardware came later.
yjftsjthsd-h•1h ago