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I remember them --- they were really good.

The architecture was layered, too, so you typically only ever used one book at a time. Doing raw graphics operations? All you need is the Xlib book. Xt/Xaw? There's a book for that. Motif? There's a book for that, too, but it wasn't in our set.

The raw X protocol was, IIRC, documented in volume 0.



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