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Encyclopedia > Jim Gettys

Jim Gettys is a computer programmer. He is one of the original developers of the X Window System at MIT and works on it again with X.Org, where he serves on the board of directors. He worked at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the editor of the HTTP/1.1 specification in the Internet Engineering Task Force.


Jim works at HP Labs' Cambridge Research Laboratory. He is a member of the collegium of the Open Source Awards, and won the 1997 Internet Plumber of the Year award for his work on HTTP/1.1 on behalf of the group who worked on it. Jim is one of the keepers of the Flame (USENIX's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award) on behalf of The X Window System Community at Large.


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The Big freedesktop.org Interview - OSNews.com (1378 words)
Jim Gettys: The jury is out: one idea we've toyed with is to encourage most applications to use 16bit deep windows as much as possible.
Jim Gettys: If we provide some way for toolkits to mark stable points in their display, it may be less necessary for applications to ask explicitly for double buffering.
Jim Gettys: Understand that today's X applications draw fundamentally differently than your parent's X applications; we've found that a much simpler and narrower driver interface is sufficient for 2D graphics: 3D remains hard.
Jim Gettys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (147 words)
Jim works at HP Labs' Cambridge Research Laboratory.
He is a member of the collegium of the Open Source Awards, and won the 1997 Internet Plumber of the Year award for his work on HTTP/1.1 on behalf of the group who worked on it.
Jim is one of the keepers of the Flame (USENIX's 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award) on behalf of The X Window System Community at Large.
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