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==History== twm was written as a replacement for the [[Ultrix Window Manager|uwm]] window manager by Tom LaStrange while he was working at [[Evans & Sutherland]], which was part of the X Consortium: "I sat down at my monochrome [[Sun-3|Sun 3/50]] and typed <code>[[Vi (text editor)|vi]] twm.c</code> and then opened the X11 documentation. twm was my first X program. About six months later, I convinced my manager to let me send a copy to the comp.windows.x newsgroup for testing."<ref>"[http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/3000/2/ From the Desktop: Tom LaStrange Speaks!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306145723/http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/3000/2/ |date=2019-03-06 }}" ''LinuxPlanet''. February 6, 2001.</ref> A version for X11R1 was published on the [[Usenet]] newsgroup {{mono|comp.unix.sources}} on June 13, 1988.<ref>for open comment and review. [http://ftp.isc.org/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume15/twm/ Original files as posted to comp.unix.sources] (isc.org)</ref> Months later, Jim Fulton of the X Consortium (which was at the time part of [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]]) approached Evans and Sutherland and asked them to turn over the code maintenance to the [[X Window System#The MIT X Consortium and the X Consortium.2C Inc.|X Consortium]] and Fulton then made it compliant with the nascent [[Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual]]. Subsequently, twm was released as the standard sample window manager for X11R4, replacing [[Ultrix Window Manager|uwm]]. According to Fulton, the word "tab" was picked because it conveniently started with 'T' and it put the emphasis on the squeezing feature window title bars, which made them look like folders with tabs.
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