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mananaysiempreyesterday at 11:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Yes, it’s simultaneously logical if you look at how it works and immensely strange if you don’t understand the architecture. (As has been noted all the way back to the UNIX-HATERS Handbook[1], although, pace 'DonHopkins, the NeWS Book uses the same terminology—possibly because it was written late enough to contain promises of X11/NeWS.)

[1] https://www.donhopkins.com/home/catalog/unix-haters/x-window...


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the_why_of_ytoday at 10:19 AM

There is nothing at all strange about the terminology. Go run ps on macOS and marvel at the "WindowServer" process. The generic architectural term is "display server".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing_system#Display_serve...