X servers and clients IS NOT BACKWARDS

[David Nicol]

Lucas Peet wrote:

> Sorry if this sounds confusing - the people who made Xwindows were 
> thinking backwards when they decided what to call the X 'server' and X 
> 'client'.
> 
> -Lucas

No they weren't.  The definitions are: "server" is a interface to
a resource, and a "client" is something that uses a resource provided
by a server.

The definitions are software-centric instead of user-centric.  From
those definitions, the user interface is a server that provides an
interface to the human resource, just the same as a SCSI module provides
an interface to a plate o' rust.