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Whitechapel Computer Works is a UK company founded in April 1983 which manufactures a workstation running a Unix operating system. The company is situated in the East End of London, a step or two away from Silicon Valley! This paper describes the window manager for the workstation, gives some background to the design decisions and attempts to forecast problems likely to arise in the future.
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Sweetman, D. (1986). A Modular Window System for Unix. In: Hopgood, F.R.A., Duce, D.A., Fielding, E.V.C., Robinson, K., Williams, A.S. (eds) Methodology of Window Management. EurographicSeminars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70919-7_7
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