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In computing, a networked window management system developed as part of Project Athena at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. It has been adopted as a standard by the Unix community but is platform-independent and versions exist for many different operating systems. X Windows enables a user to open windows into a number of different computers at the same time, either using an X Terminal or via X software running on a PC, a Unix workstation, or another computer. Although X Windows is not a graphical user interface (GUI), it provides software tools to support such interfaces: Motif is a popular Unix GUI built on X.

X got its name because it started from an earlier MIT development called W. X Window System is now a trademark of The Open Group.
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