20 Aug
2012
20 Aug
'12
8:53 a.m.
On 8/19/2012 10:40 PM, Michael Kerpan wrote:
The recent FOSS release of CDE has got me thinking of
other Unix GUIs
from the "golden age" of workstation Unix. Obviously, stuff like
SunView and OpenWindows from Sun and 4DWM/Indigo Desktop from SGI are
pretty well known, but I've always wondered what else was out there.So
far, I've come across Looking Glass, DECWindows and HP VUE. Is there
anything else of any importance/interest out there?
It was never commercial, but there was Virtue (later known as the Andrew
Toolkit, and even later than that known as the Andrew User Interface
System) - the windowing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University
as part of the Andrew Project (an early campus-wide workstation
computing initiative). It started out as a completely self-contained
user interface system, but (much) later was changed to use X11 to drive
the workstation's display (in the early days of the Andrew Project,
there was no X Window System....).
http://www.cmu.edu/corporate/news/2007/features/andrew/index.shtml
I still fondly recall using Andrew workstations (my favorites were the
Sun-2's... :-) ) when I was working at CMU.
You could probably still find the older Virtue code if you look. Getting
it to build on anything anymore - that's probably a more difficult
problem. ;-)
--Pat.