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As the propagation of graphical workstations began, there were scarcely any standards for programming graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Most manufacturers provided their own GUIs GUIs with their machines. If an application that was intended to exploit the graphical possibilities of the new machines was to run on different platforms, it had to be developed and maintained in multiple platforms variants. Large institutions that worked with systems from various manufacturers particularly felt the brunt of these problems.
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Strobel, S., Elling, V. (1997). X Window System. In: Linux. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1856-2_8
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