X.Org is now pretty much an ex-org: Maintainer declares the open-source windowing system largely abandoned

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[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The X Window System was released in 1985 and developed on Unix at the same time as Apple did the Macintosh project. Steve Jobs used The X Windows for NeXT and now it is part of macOS.

[–]LarrySwinger2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

MacOS uses Aqua. It's possible to run X.org on it, but it's in no way part of the system.

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No. NeXT was written in Objective C and unrelated to the X Window System. In fact it used DISPLAY POSTSCRIPT and lacked pixels. Pixels were each floating point rectangles (yes rectangles, not squares). To draw a perfect circle on a NeXT, a oval was rendered , deep down in the drawing code!

UNRELATED!