Mother of all xterms?

[Ben Scott]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [1] twm, confusingly, does not do tabbed windows.  ;-)
>
> IIRC the "t" stands for "Tom's", not "Tabbed"

  It depends on who you ask.  It can stand "Tom's" or "Tab".  I've
seen man pages for either and both.  My Debian box uses "Tab" in
twm(1).

  I've seen a claim that "Tab" was introduced by the X Consortium
because they found "Tom's" unprofessional, but I can't verify that.

  I don't know, but I'd speculate that the titular "tab" refers to
what is today called a "title bar", which was an innovation when twm
was introduced.

-- Ben