Similarities of X Windows and Windows
Darryl Harris
University of Phoenix
Introduction to Unix POS/420
Hassan Shamim
Microsoft Windows and X Windows share many similarities when viewed with the human eye, but they have their share of differences. X Windows is one of the most powerful and important software packages available for Linux and Unix. Microsoft windows was arguably designed after X windows, only with an exceptional number of added features with the user in mind.
X WINDOWS
The original purpose of X windows was to allow users using graphic terminals to access remote graphics workstations without regard to the workstation's operating system or hardware. Due to the excellent performance and open source nature, the X Window System has become the standard windowing system for virtually all Unix and Linux operating systems. X is based on a client-server model in which the X server is a program that runs on your system and handles all access to the graphics hardware. An X client is an applications program that communicates with the server, sending it requests such as "draw a line" or "pay attention to keyboard input." The X server takes care of servicing these requests by drawing a line on the display or sending user input (via the keyboard, mouse, or whatever) to the client application. Examples of X clients are xterm (which emulates a terminal within a window) or xman (an X-based manual-page reader). It is important to note that X is a network-oriented graphics system. That is, X clients can run either locally on the same system that the server is running on or remotely.
MS WINDOWS
Microsoft created its windows PC with the intended purpose of providing a new software environment for developing and running a ...