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		thinkling on May 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBS... I don't think Carmack ever worked for Apple. The XQuartz release notes say Carmack ported XFree86 (X server for x86 machines) to OS X; my guess would be that he did a limited port to get what he needed to run the Doom/Quake engine?

asveikau on May 19, 2020 [–]

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 on May 19, 2020 | [–]

Wait a minute, Free86 is also a pun for 386.

It only took me almost 2 decades to notice.

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