Sujet : Re: The COHERENT Operating System
De : ram (at) *nospam* zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
Groupes : comp.misc comp.windows.xDate : 26. Mar 2024, 11:52:28
Autres entêtes
Organisation : Stefan Ram
Message-ID : <term-20240326115116@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
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vallor <
vallor@cultnix.org> wrote or quoted:
BTDT: it was known as "X Windows", not "X Window".
But officially, it was (and still is) "X" or "The X Window System".
There seem to be two different linguistic points of view here:
Descriptive View
The meaning of a term is determined by how it is used by the people.
Prescriptive View
The manufacturer of a system may determine the terms, and others not.
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