18 May
2025
18 May
'25
6:14 a.m.
Hi Marc,
Marc Rochkind <mrochkind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was on a different committee that was trying to
standardize a universal
GUI interface that could work on any GUI, including Mac, Windows, Motif,
and OpenLook. My product, XVT, was the base document. We never got past the
draft stage.
I think XVT also supported libcurses, no?
Around 1990-1991 I was in a start-up company and we looked at XVT
for the UI we wanted to write. I remember being in the confeerence room
on a phone call with you, and thinking how cool it was that we were
talking to one of those famous UNIX guys who'd been at Bell Labs.
A modern incarnation of your idea is the Qt toolkit, which lets one
write C++ UI (and more) code that runs the same on Windows, Mac, *nix,
and these days maybe even Android and iPhone.
In any case, is the XVT code around somewhere?
Thanks,
Arnold