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Before the 1990s, "wizard" was a common term for a technical expert, comparable to "hacker." [3] The 1985 textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs was nicknamed the "Wizard Book" [4] for the illustration on its cover; its first chapter says, "A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer's idea of a spirit."
The X Window System logo. The X Window System core protocol [1] [2] [3] is the base protocol of the X Window System, which is a networked windowing system for bitmap displays used to build graphical user interfaces on Unix, Unix-like, and other operating systems.
Here, rather than a remote database being the resource for a local app, the user's graphic display and input devices become resources made available by the local X server to both local and remotely hosted X client programs who need to share the user's graphics and input devices to communicate with the user.