18 May
2025
18 May
'25
3:54 p.m.
Thanks for the info Marc.
Looks like Providence Software XVT is indeed a cross-platform
toolkit.
Marc Rochkind <mrochkind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Arnold,
I left XVT around 1992 or so and shortly after that it was absorbed into a
California company owned by XVT's VC investor. Then the XVT assets were
sold to someone and it was operated for some years as an independent
company, but I don't know what happened after that. I haven't had any
contact at all with XVT for over 30 years.
Poking around, I see this website:
https://providencesoftware.com/
where XVT seems still to exist. But that's just from Googling; I don't have
any other knowledge.
Indeed XVT supported character displays in addition to GUIs.
Marc
On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM <arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
Hi Marc,
Marc Rochkind <mrochkind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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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