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

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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!