I remember it being stressed to me: "don't call it 'X-Windows'. It is 'X', or 'The X Window System', if you must." This was in an environment where upper mana

I remember it being stressed to me: "don't call it 'X-Windows'. It is 'X', or 'The X Window System', if you must." This was in an environment where upper management wanted to take away the desktop workstations from non-developers in favor of X terminals. "We move all that work to the server now; You don't need all that expense on all these desks. Server-side is the future." Good freaking luck if you were Tech Support or QA. The fun part: we were spending as much on the X terminals and supporting equipment as we could get more Sparcstations for at our great corporate rate (my desktop was on its third generation by then). Unsurprisingly, this was merely an early checkpoint in what became a tailspin.