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:

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@skeeve.com> wrote:

Hi Marc,

Marc Rochkind <mrochkind@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