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XFree86 wasn't x86 only, but the name does hint at how it did target PCs starting in a time when the norm for X would have been to run commercial Unix on non-PC
by asveikau 6y ago
XFree86 wasn't x86 only, but the name does hint at how it did target PCs starting in a time when the norm for X would have been to run commercial Unix on non-PC hardware.
Xorg forked from XFree86 circa 2003.
- etaioinshrdlu 6y agoWait a minute, Free86 is also a pun for 386. It only took me almost 2 decades to notice.